Viral Genome Packaging: Genetics, Structure, and Mechanism / Edition 1

by Carlos E. Catalano

Overview

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 process across the prokaryotic and eukaryotic border, and for DNA and RNA viruses. The biochemical, biophysical and structural aspects of genome packaging are examined in detail.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441934321
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	12/06/2010
Series:	Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
Pages:	153
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

Viral Genome Packaging Machines.- Bacteriophage Lambda Terminase and the Mechanism of Viral DNA Packaging.- DNA Packaging in Bacteriophage T4.- T3/T7 DNA Packaging.- DNA Packaging by Bacteriophage P22.- Bacteriophage SPP1 DNA Packaging.- The ø29 DNA Packaging Motor.- Encapsidation of the Segmented Double-Stranded RNA Genome of Bacteriophage—6.- Cleavage and Packaging of Herpes Simplex Virus 1 DNA.