Research ArticleBIOPHYSICS
Directional mechanical stability of Bacteriophage φ29 motor’s 3WJ-pRNA: Extraordinary robustness along portal axis
- Zhonghe Xu1,2,*,
- Yang Sun3,*,
- Jeffrey K. Weber4,
- Yi Cao3,
- Wei Wang3,
- Daniel Jasinski5,
- Peixuan Guo5,
- Ruhong Zhou1,4,6,† and
- Jingyuan Li1,2,†
- 1Institute of Quantitative Biology and Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China.
- 2Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
- 3Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructure, Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210093, China.
- 4IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA.
- 5Center for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine, College of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry; College of Medicine/Department of Physiology & Cell Biology; Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
- 6Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
- ↵†Corresponding author. Email: lijingyuan{at}ihep.ac.cn (J.L.); ruhongz{at}us.ibm.com (R.Z.)
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Science Advances 26 May 2017:
Vol. 3, no. 5, e1601684
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1601684
