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Revision as of 11:57, 25 January 2016
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Introduction
Function
Structural highlights
As you can see on the figure bellow, each monomer of capsid is linked to five others to form a hexamer. These hexamers (approximately 330 per virus) associates themselves to form a non-symetrical protein complex.
References
Structural image : By Thomas Splettstoesser (www.scistyle.com) (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
