Lect. 6 composition & Architecture of plant viruses
Lect. 6 composition & Architecture of plant viruses
Lect. 6 composition & Architecture of plant viruses
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<strong>Architecture</strong> <strong>of</strong> rod shaped <strong>viruses</strong><br />
• Crick & Watson (1956) put forwarded a<br />
hypothesis regarding structures <strong>of</strong> small <strong>viruses</strong><br />
(TYMV & TMV) that:<br />
• Viral RNA enclosed in CP<br />
• Naked RNA is infectious<br />
• Basic requirement is protein shell to protect n/a etc.<br />
• In rod shaped <strong>viruses</strong>, the protein subunits are<br />
arranged in a helical manner regardless <strong>of</strong> protein<br />
subunit number into a helical array.