Structure and assembly of bacteriophage T4 head

Virology Journal

Volumn 7, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Rao, Venigalla B ^a   Black, Lindsay W ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CAPSID PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; HOC PROTEIN; NUCLEASE; PEPTIDE; SOC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GENE 24 PROTEIN, ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE T4; GP16 PROTEIN, BACTERIOPHAGE T4; GP17 PROTEIN, ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE T4; GP20 PROTEIN, BACTERIOPHAGE T4; GP23 PROTEIN, BACTERIOPHAGE T4; HOC PROTEIN, T4 PHAGE; INTERNAL PROTEIN I, BACTERIOPHAGE T4; SMALL OUTER CAPSID PROTEIN, BACTERIOPHAGE T4; VIRUS PROTEIN;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; BINDING SITE; DNA PACKAGING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; METHYLATION; MUTAGENESIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MACROMOLECULE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE VIRUS; IPS; MIRIDAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS;

BACTERIOPHAGE T4; CAPSID PROTEINS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRION;

EID: 78649623974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1743422X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-7-356     Document Type: Review

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