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Main Title Viral Genome Packaging Machines: Genetics, Structure, and Mechanism [electronic resource] /
Type EBOOK
Author Catalano, Carlos Enrique.
Publisher Springer US,
Year Published 2005
Call Number QR355-502
ISBN 9780387285214
Subjects Medicine ; Medical virology ; Biochemistry ; Microbial genetics ; Biomedical engineering
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-28521-0
Collation X, 153 p. online resource.
Notes
Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only
Contents Notes
Viral Genome Packaging Machines -- Bacteriophage Lambda Terminase and the Mechanism of Viral DNA Packaging -- DNA Packaging in Bacteriophage T4 -- T3/T7 DNA Packaging -- DNA Packaging by Bacteriophage P22 -- Bacteriophage SPP1 DNA Packaging -- The ΓΈ29 DNA Packaging Motor -- Encapsidation of the Segmented Double-Stranded RNA Genome of Bacteriophage ?6 -- Cleavage and Packaging of Herpes Simplex Virus 1 DNA. Viral Genome Packaging focuses on the process of genome "packaging" within a pre-formed viral procapsid. The chapters of this book concentrate on the biochemistry, enzymology and structural aspects of the genome packaging machinery. This book defines a broad mechanistic basis for the process across the prokaryotic and eukaryotic border, and for DNA and RNA viruses. The biochemical, biophysical and structural aspects of genome packaging are examined in detail.