The bullet shape of Rhabdoviruses is thought to depend on their matrix protein, which stabilizes the nucleocapsid coil. Desfosses and colleagues show that the nucleoprotein of the vesicular stomatitis virus can fold the genome into a bullet-shaped skeleton in the absence of other viral components.
- Ambroise Desfosses
- Euripedes A. Ribeiro Jr
- Irina Gutsche
