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Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, December 1999, p. 862-922, Vol. 63, No. 4
1092-2172/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Adding the Third Dimension to Virus Life Cycles: Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Icosahedral Viruses from Cryo-Electron Micrographs

T. S. Baker,1,* N. H. Olson,1 and S. D. Fuller2,3

Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-13921; Structural Biology Programme, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany2; and The Welcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom3

Viruses are cellular parasites. The linkage between viral and host functions makes the study of a viral life cycle an important key to cellular functions. A deeper understanding of many aspects of viral life cycles has emerged from coordinated molecular and structural studies carried out with a wide range of viral pathogens. Structural studies of viruses by means of cryo-electron microscopy and three-dimensional image reconstruction methods have grown explosively in the last decade. Here we review the use of cryo-electron microscopy for the determination of the structures of a number of icosahedral viruses. These studies span more than 20 virus families. Representative examples illustrate the use of moderate- to low-resolution (7- to 35-Å) structural analyses to illuminate functional aspects of viral life cycles including host recognition, viral attachment, entry, genome release, viral transcription, translation, proassembly, maturation, release, and transmission, as well as mechanisms of host defense. The success of cryo-electron microscopy in combination with three-dimensional image reconstruction for icosahedral viruses provides a firm foundation for future explorations of more-complex viral pathogens, including the vast number that are nonspherical or nonsymmetrical.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1392. E-mail: tsb{at}bragg.bio.purdue.edu.

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, December 1999, p. 862-922, Vol. 63, No. 4
1092-2172/99/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1999, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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