Brome mosaic virus particle

Lucas, R. W, Kuznetsov, Y. G., Larson, S. B., and McPherson, A. 2001. Crystallization of brome mosaic virus and t = 1 brome mosaic virus particles following a structural transition. Virology 286,290-303. 

Large-scale fluctuations of an animal virus particle are important for its ability to infect cells, but another type of particle dynamic behavior has been known for decades and was first identified in a plant virus. Brome mosaic virus (BMV), a single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) virus with T=3 icosahedral... 

FIGURE 1.12 Atomic force microscopy (AFM) also reveals the fundamental periodicity of macro-molecular crystals. In (a) is the surface layer of a crystal of brome mosaic virus, a particle having a diameter of about 280 A. In (b) is an AFM image of a monoclinic crystal of duodecahedral complexes of intact immunoglobulins, which have a diameter of about 230 A. 

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