... resides on the surface of the protein and makes noobvious stabilizing interactions with other amino acid side-chains, this part of the protein interacts with genomic RNA[33,41,47]. Such interactions ... promote significant binding of bis-ANS to any of the particles, with the exception of T45S, which bound asmall amount of bis-ANS, increasing, by twofold, the emission of the probe (Fig. 7B). ... those of other simple icosahedralviruses [13]. The main chain of the protein subunit foldsinto a five stranded antiparallel b-sheet (strands bC–bG)facing the interior of the phage particle, with...