Type: | Domain | Name: | Viral coat protein subunit |
Description: | The domain that participates in the formation of icosahedral virus shell exhibits a fold with two flanking twisted beta-sheets, each consisting of 4 antiparallel beta-strands, that is called the 8-stranded jelly roll beta-barrel motif [, ]. In the Norwalk virus, a human calicivirus, the capsid protein has a protruding (P) domain connected by a flexible hinge to a shell (S) domain that has this classical eight-stranded beta-sandwich motif []. | Short Name: | Viral_coat |