Unusual Aggregation of a Nonfunctional Tobacco Mosaic Virus Protein
- 27 March 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 143 (3613) , 1451-1452
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.143.3613.1451
Abstract
The nonfunctional virus protein isolated from plants infected with the PM2 strain of tobacco mosaic virus aggregates to form elongated, two-stranded, open helical structures, in marked contrast with functional tobacco mosaic virus protein which aggregates into rods. This unique type of aggregation may explain why the PM2 protein is unable to combine with viral nucleic acid to form stable infectious virus particles.Keywords
This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
- Symptoms and cytology of living cells infected with defective mutants of tobacco mosaic virusVirology, 1964
- THE ISOLATION OF DEFECTIVE TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS STRAINSProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1962
- Reconstitution of tobacco mosaic virus III. Improved methods and the use of mixed nucleic acidsBiochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1959
- A negative staining method for high resolution electron microscopy of virusesBiochimica et Biophysica Acta, 1959
- Degradation of tobacco mosaic virus with acetic acidVirology, 1957