Distribution and three-dimensional structure of AIDS virus envelope spikes.
Map
3D map of SIVmac239 envelope spike. It is the 3D averaged volume of all spikes including both "top/bottom view" and "side view" subsets (supplementary method of the reference). Author's threshold 2.65. It should be loaded together with the associated viral membrane map (SIVmac239_Vir_memb.map, EMD-1247, author's threshold 2.25 ).
Sample
Envelope Spike on the surface of SIVmac239 virus with truncated cytoplasmic tail
3D map of SIVmac239 envelope spike. It is the 3D averaged volume of all spikes including both "top/bottom view" and "side view" subsets (supplementary method of the reference). Author's threshold 2.65. It should be loaded together with the associated viral membrane map (SIVmac239_Vir_memb.map, EMD-1247, author's threshold 2.25 ).
The resolution of the final averaged map, determined by Fourier shell correlation (based on a cutoff value of 0.5) is 2.5 nm and, after low pass filtering to the estimated first node in the contrast transfer function, 3.2 nm.
Subtomogram Averaging
Details
The tomographic tilt angle increment was determined by cosine rule, i.e., ~2-3 degrees increment around low tilt angles and <1 degree increment in the high tilt angles. Average number of tilts used in the 3D reconstructions: 80. Average tomographic tilt angle increment: 2.
Atomic Model Fitting
Model #0
Refinement Protocol
rigid body
Software
Chimera
Details
The gp120 core and 2F5 and 4E10 peptides structure were fittted by manual docking using program chimera and then applied 3-fold symmetry around Z axis.