DNA arrangement in isometric phage heads
- 18 August 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 268 (5621) , 598-602
- https://doi.org/10.1038/268598a0
Abstract
DNA is wound tightly into phage heads in such a way that it tends to form layers concentric with the rigid protein shell. In P22 and wild-type lambda, DNA completely fills the internal volume, with a highly uniform local packing of adjacent segments; in lambda deletion mutants containing less than a full genome, the local packing distance increases correspondingly.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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