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Protein chain mail offers armor for viruses

The shells that protect certain viruses have protein rings that interlink.

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 3, July 18, 1998, p. 38.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

References:

Duda, R.L. 1998. Protein chainmail: Catenated protein in viral capsids. Cell 94(July 10): 55.

Further Readings:

Peterson, I. 1995. Viral shell game. Science News 147(March 25):186.

Sources:

Robert L. Duda
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Biological Sciences
Pittsburgh Bacteriophage Institute
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Website: http://www.pitt.edu/~duda.

Roger Hendrix
University of Pittsburgh
Department of Biological Sciences
Pittsburgh Bacteriophage Institute
Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Peter E. Prevelige Jr.
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Beville Research Building
Birmingham, AL 35294

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