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X-RAY diffraction data and chemical evidence suggest that the protein content of tobacco mosaic virus rods is built up of small sub-units1. A model has been proposed2 in the form of a helix of pitch of 23 A. and repeat distance of 69 A.
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MATTHEWS, R., HORNE, R. & GREEN, E. Electron Microscope Observations of Periodicities in the Surface Structure of Tobacco Mosaic Virus. Nature 178, 635–636 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178635a0
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