Extended Data Fig. 5: Questionable connecting densities between nuclear capsids and budding NEC.
From: Molecular plasticity of herpesvirus nuclear egress analysed in situ
The NEC subvolumes were classified by the distance to the nearest penton vertex (top panel) and vice versa (bottom panel). Each column shows sections through the resulting class average volume, with the maximum separation distance and the number of particles included in the average indicated above. All volumes were filtered using the same bandpass filter. The NEC layer is smeared in the penton-aligned averages and accordingly the capsids are smeared in the NEC-aligned averages, indicating that the two lattices are not aligned. There is a hint of a density originating from pentons closer than ~7 nm from the nearest NEC surface (orange arrows), but any interpretation of this would be highly questionable due to the small number of particles.
