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Dislocations in Tobacco Mosaic Virus

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Crystal dislocations occur in polymerized protein from TMV. Their several possible functions in rearranging protein subunits and feeding in RNA into assembling TMV are described.

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HARRIS, W. Dislocations in Tobacco Mosaic Virus. Nature 240, 294–297 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/240294a0

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