Papillomavirus capsid and minichromosome V2

This model is one of two versions of the papillomavirus generated in support of: Porter SS, Liddle JC, Browne K, Pastrana DV, Garcia BA, Buck CB, Weitzman MD, McBride AA. Histone Modifications in Papillomavirus Virion Minichromosomes. mBio. 2021 Feb 16;12(1):e03274-20. doi: 10.1128/mBio.03274-20. PMID: 33593981.

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.03274-20

"Structural model of 13 H3.3 (dark orange) nucleosomes (PDB 5X7X ) and 19 H3.1 (light orange) nucleosomes (PDB 3AFA ) packed into a sphere approximating the interior of HPV16 capsid (PDB 5KEP ) using CellPACK and ePMV in Maxon Cinema 4D. Each nucleosome is wrapped with 146 bp DNA, and the capsid was “packed” with 32 additional 100-bp segments of linker DNA (7,872 bp total). " The capsid was generated using the molecular maya plugin in Autodesk Maya

Note - this model is in 4 pieces: a base, the bottom capsid, the minichromosome, and the capsid lid