The DNA inside a phage capsid is densely packaged, and therefore a strong gate is required to keep it inside. Lhuillier and colleagues, writing in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National ...

Founder@Hoxton VC. Bacteriophage. A bacteriophage is constituted of a proteic envelope (called capsid), containing its ... [+] nucleic acid (DNA or RNA), and a tail. The tail includes a collar ...

Using the protein capsid/nucleic acid radiolabeling technique devised by Murray and Parks in the lab and in the field, we observed much faster virus inactivation in the presence of Cape Cod sediments.

A bacterial virus is caused by a bacteriophage, or ... If the phage's protective capsid protein is present, CmdC ...