RESEARCH ARTICLE Structures of the N- and C-terminal domains of MHV-A59 nucleocapsid protein corroborate a conserved RNA-protein binding mechanism in coronavirus Yanlin Ma1,2*, Xiaohang Tong1,2*, Xiaoling Xu3, Xuemei Li1, Zhiyong Lou3, Zihe Rao1,3✉ 1 Life National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China 2 Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China 3 Laboratory of Structural Biology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China ✉ Correspondence: