Viral Genome Packaging Machines: Genetics, Structure, and Mechanism

• Main Author: Catalano, Carlos Enrique (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit
• Subjects: Medicine.; Virology.; Biochemistry.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Biomedicine.; Biochemistry, general.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.

Viral Genome Packaging focuses on the process of genome "packaging" within a pre-formed viral procapsid. The chapters of this book concentrate on the biochemistry, enzymology and structural aspects of the genome packaging machinery. This book defines a broad mechanistic basis for the proce...