The crystal structure of bacteriophage GA and a comparison of bacteriophages belonging to the major groups of Escherichia coli leviviruses

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 271, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 759-773

  Tars, Kaspars ^a   Bundule, Maija ^a   Fridborg, Kerstin ^b   Liljas, Lars ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

GA; MS2; Q ; Virus assembly; Virus evolution

Indexed keywords

COAT PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BINDING SITE; COLIPHAGE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE GA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031554914     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1214     Document Type: Article

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