Fig. 5.

Interaction between coat protein dimers and the operator-like hairpins of gRNA. (A) Operator-like hairpin interacting with an A/B dimer. (B) Operator-like hairpin interacting with a C/C dimer. (C) Model of the coat protein dimers interacting with operator-like hairpins are in salmon, green, and blue for their conformers A, B, and C, respectively. Dimers not interacting with operator-like hairpins are in gray. The α-helix bundle of A₂ is in hot pink and shown as the North Pole (labeled “N”). (D) Mercator projection of the capsid density with coat protein dimers colored as in C.