Herpesvirus Morphology: Visualization of a Structural Subunit

1 January 1978

journal article
research article
Published by S. Karger AG in Intervirology

Vol. 10 (5) , 318-320
https://doi.org/10.1159/000148994

Abstract

The presence of spontaneously disrupted cytomegalovirus capsíds has made it possible to visualize a subunit within the herpesvirus capsomere. The pattern resolved agreed well with the theoretical net based on the concept of a structural subunit at each apex of the hexon.

Keywords

VIRUS SUBSTRUCTURE
CAPSOMERE STRUCTURE
HERPESVIRUS STRUCTURE

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Symmetry in virus architecture
Virology, 1961