Matching electrostatic charge between DNA and coat protein in filamentous bacteriophage. Fibre diffraction of charge-deletion mutants.

doi:10.1006/jmbi.1994.0009

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Matching electrostatic charge between DNA and coat protein in filamentous bacteriophage. Fibre diffraction of charge-deletion mutants.

Journal of molecular biology - 13 Jan 1995

Symmons M F, Welsh L C, Nave C, Marvin D A, Perham R N

Abstract excerpt

The virion of Ff (fd, f1, M13) filamentous bacteriophage consists of a long tube of coat protein subunits in a shingled, helical array, surrounding a genome of circular single-stranded DNA. Modified fd virions have been generated by a mutation (K48A) that removes one positive charge from each coa...

Topics

Capsid
DNA, Viral
Electrochemistry
Inovirus
Mutation
Nucleic Acid Conformation
Protein Conformation
X-Ray Diffraction

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