@article {2265,
	title = {On the structures of filamentous bacteriophage Ff (fd, f1, M13)},
	journal = {European Biophysics Journal with Biophysics Letters},
	volume = {37},
	number = {4},
	year = {2008},
	note = {Straus, S. K. Scott, W. R. P. Symmons, M. F. Marvin, D. A.},
	month = {Apr},
	pages = {521-527},
	abstract = {The filamentous bacteriophage (Inovirus) strain Ff (fd, f1, M13) is widely used in molecular biophysics as a simple model system. A low resolution molecular model of the fd protein coat has been reported, derived from iterative helical real space reconstruction of cryo-electron micrographs (cryoEM). This model is significantly different from the model previously derived from X-ray fibre diffraction and solid-state NMR. We show that the cryoEM model agrees neither with solid-state NMR data nor with X-ray fibre diffraction data of fd, and has some puzzling structural features, for instance nanometre holes through the protein coat. We refine the cryoEM model against the X-ray data, and find that the model after refinement closely approximates the model derived directly from X-ray fibre diffraction and solid-state NMR data. We suggest possible reasons for the differences between the models derived from cryoEM and X-ray diffraction.},
	isbn = {0175-7571},
	url = {<Go to ISI>://000254235700018},
	author = {Straus, S. K. and Scott, W. R. P. and Symmons, M. F. and Marvin, D. A.}
}
