Analysis of X-ray diffraction from fibres of Pf1 Inovirus (filamentous bacteriophage) shows that the DNA in the virion is not highly ordered

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 284, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1265-1271

  Welsh, Liam C ^a   Marvin, Donald A ^a   Perham, Richard N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disorder; DNA protein interactions; Fibre diffraction; Filamentous bacteriophage; Macromolecular assemblies

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; INOVIRIDAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VIRION; VIRUS GENE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

FILAMENTOUS BACTERIOPHAGE; INOVIRIDAE; INOVIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0032545177     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2275     Document Type: Article

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