Morphology and ultrastructure of retrovirus particles

AIMS Biophysics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 343-369

  Zhang, Wei ^a,b   Cao, Sheng ^c   Martin, Jessica L ^a,b   Mueller, Joachim D ^a,d   Mansky, Louis M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (China)

^d University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Capsid protein shell; Cryo electron microscopy; Cryo electron tomography; Envelop protein complex; Gag lattice; Retrovirus structure; Sub tomogram averaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018198563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23779098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/biophy.2015.3.343     Document Type: Review

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