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Nature 439, 612-616 (2 February 2006) | doi:10.1038/nature04487;

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Structure of epsilon15 bacteriophage reveals genome organization and DNA packaging/injection apparatus

The critical viral components for packaging DNA, recognizing and binding to host cells, and injecting the condensed DNA into the host are organized at a single vertex of many icosahedral viruses. These component structures do not share icosahedral symmetry and cannot be resolved using a conventional icosahedral averaging method.

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