"The structure of small viruses"

Date:
1956
Reference:
PP/CRI/H/2/4
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: "The structure of small viruses". Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Thie «loes not aaean, however, that RNA sub-units do not exist* sine© It is possible that the HHÀ core contaias a mvmb&r of identical atranda systematically interacting witli the protein shell, Si# important conaideratioa is that the packing arrangement should be repeated oyer and over again and this can be done if the symmetry of the llâ'iô the sai» a© the symmetry of the protein and if the aynum t*y applies only to the smgar-phosphat® backbone and not to the sequence of base®. It remains to be aeen whether this type of arraîîteœent can be established experimentally«