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Title
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Dynamics of telescoping Inovirus: a mechanism for assembly at membrane adhesions.
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Author
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D.A.Marvin.
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Ref.
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Int J Biol Macromol, 1989,
11,
159-164.
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Abstract
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Telescoping of Inovirus (filamentous bacteriophage) into short hollow tubes by
organic solvents suggests a molecular mechanism both for infection and for
maturation of the virion at adhesions between the inner and outer bacterial
membranes. The symmetry of alpha-helix subunit arrangement in the virion is
related to the symmetry of leaf arrangement in plants (phyllotaxis) and is
conserved in a molecular rearrangement model of the telescope.
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