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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.

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