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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Microbiol. 2020 Sep 7;5(12):1542–1552. doi: 10.1038/s41564-020-0785-y

Fig. 2 |. MCP organization and pentonal MCP–hexonal MCP interactions.

Fig. 2 |

a, Canonical hexon MCP coloured and labelled by domain. b, Superposition of hexon and penton MCPs. c, Pipe-and-plank depiction of an E hexon showing the central channel (dashed square). The narrowest region has a dimension (Φ) of about 17 Å. d, Part of the MCP–MCP interaction network viewed from the outside. e, Comparisons of MCP interactions between hexons and pentons in the capsids of VZV, HSV-1, HCMV and KSHV.