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Structure of isometric viruses containing nonidentical polypeptide chains.

Journal of virology ·Vol. 14 ·No. 4 ·1974-10-00 ·Pages 878-85

Dunker AK

Abstract

The theory of Caspar and Klug (1962) for the structure of isometric viruses has been generalized to the case in which the identical repeating unit is composed of n nonidentical polypeptide chains. This modified theory accounts for the structure of picornaviruses, the lambda phage head, cowpea mosaic virus, and phiX174, while at the same time conserving the principle of having identical subunits in identical environments. Furthermore, the modified theory suggests amending the triangulation number to T[n] for capsids with n nonidentical polypeptide chains as the repeating unit.

MeSH Terms
Coliphages/ultrastructure DNA Viruses Models, Structural Mosaic Viruses/ultrastructure Peptides Picornaviridae/ultrastructure Plant Viruses/ultrastructure Viral Proteins
Chemicals
Peptides Viral Proteins
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Dunker A K
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Article Info
Journal
Journal of virology
Abbr.
J Virol
ISSN
0022-538X
DOI
10.1128/JVI.14.4.878-885.1974
Published
1974-10-00
Pages
878-85
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
0113724
PMCID
PMC355594
Subset
IM
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PubMed source DOI: 10.1128/JVI.14.4.878-885.1974 PMC Full Text View journal details
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