Nucleic Acids Research, 1982, Vol. 10, No. 7 2467-2481
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
DNA packing in the filamentous viruses fd, Xf, Pfl and Pf3
Developmental and Structural Biology, The Public Health Research Institute of the City of New York, Inc. 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA
Received December 9, 1981. Revised March 3, 1982. Accepted March 16, 1982.
Spectral data for filamentous viruses in the presence and absence of Ag+, together with other parameters, indicate that the DNA structures in two of the viruses, fd and Xf, are similar to each other but that these differ from two quite unusual and different DNA structures in Pf1 and Pf3.