Fig. 5. The elongated virus-like particle of bacteriophage AVE016.

The assembled fivefold-prolate capsid (left) is shown in light gray with the asymmetric unit of the particle, composed of 21 coat protein monomers, shown in color. When backbone atoms of individual CP monomers are superimposed (top right), eight distinct conformations are evident, which mainly differ in positioning of the EF and FG loops (bottom right). The conformers are denoted A to H, with their coloring consistent throughout the figure.