The tobacco mosaic virus particle: Structure and assembly

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1383, 1999, Pages 531-535

  Klug, A ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Helix; Nucleation; Protein disk; RNA; X ray analysis

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; REVIEW; TOBACCO; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS; VIRION; VIROLOGY; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PLANTS, TOXIC; RNA, VIRAL; TOBACCO; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS; VIRION; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0033614097     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0404     Document Type: Article

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