Simple and robust in vivo and in vitro approach for studying virus assembly

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 61, 2012, Pages

  Chaturvedi, Sonali ^a   Jung, Bongsu ^b   Gupta, Sharad ^b   Anvari, Bahman ^b   Rao, A L N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Brome mosaic virus; Dissociation; Encapsidation; Immunology; In vitro assembly; Issue 61; Nano technology; Nicotiana benthamiana

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863275708     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3645     Document Type: Article

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