Viral Genome Packaging - Genetics, Structure, and Mechanism

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.

List of contents

Viral Genome Packaging Machines: An Overview.- Bacteriophage Lambda Terminase and the Mechanisms 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: Seeking the Mechanism.- Encapsidation of the Segmented Double-Stranded RNA Genome of Bacteriophage 6.- Cleavage and Packaging of Herpes Simplex Virus 1 DNA.- Index.

Summary

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

• Assisted by: Carlo Catalano (Editor), Carlos E. Catalano (Editor), Carlos Enrique Catalano (Editor), Carlo E Catalano (Editor), Carlos E Catalano (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2005
• EAN: 9780306482274
• ISBN: 978-0-306-48227-4
• No. of pages: 153
• Illustrations: 45 SW-Abb., 6 Farbabb., X, 153 p.
• Series: Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit; Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Genetics, genetic engineering; B, Microbiology (non-medical), Life Sciences, biochemistry, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biochemistry, general, Medical physics, Biophysics, Biological physics, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Genetics (non-medical), Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Microbial genomics, Microbial Genetics, Virology, DNA;RNA;biochemistry;genetics;virus