Open AccessDNA packing in the filamentous viruses fd, Xf, Pfl and Pf3
Author(s) -
Arturo Casadevall,
Loren A. Day
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
nucleic acids research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 9.008
H-Index - 537
eISSN - 1362-4954
pISSN - 0305-1048
DOI - 10.1093/nar/10.7.2467
Subject(s) - biology , dna , virology , genetics , biophysics
Spectral data for filamentous viruses in the presence and absence of Ag+, together with other parameters, indicate that the DNA structures in two of the viruses, fd and Xf, are similar to each other but that these differ from two quite unusual and different DNA structures in Pf1 and Pf3.