Crystallographic and cryoEM analyses reveal SARS-CoV-2 SL5 is a mobile T-shaped four-way junction with deep pockets

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FIGURE 5.
FIGURE 5.

Three-dimensional variability analysis of SARS-CoV-2 stem–loop 5 (SL5). The Coulomb potential maps are contoured at 0.25 map threshold in Chimera. The motion of interest is the changing density between the SL5c loop and SL5a at the four-way junction (arrows in bottom frame).

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