BIOTECHNOLOGY
volume 13 October 1995 Number 10
ISSN 0733-222X
Nature Publishing Co., owned by Nature America, Inc., a subsidiary of Macmillan Magazines of London.
Legend
Artistic rendering of a Mengo virion releasing its single stranded RNA genome after infecting a cell. Four kinds of viral coat proteins assemble following icosahedral symmetry to form a shell around the genome. The icosahedral 5-fold axis of symmetry is easily recognized at the center of the pentamers, star shaped raised surfaces. See “Using Viral Genes to Fight Disease,” p. 1050.
Image created by JY Sgro
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Image created with Anthony Nicholls’s GRASP on Silicon Graphics computer.
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