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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Aug 13.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroscience. 2007 Mar 26;146(3):974–985. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.02.010

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The structural components of HSV. The infectious form of the virus is composed of a core of DNA surrounded by a protein shell or capsid. The major protein of the capsid is viral protein 5 (VP5). The capsid and DNA, called the nucleocapsid, are surrounded by the glycoprotein-rich envelope composed of eleven proteins. Two of the envelope proteins are glycoprotein D (gD) and gC. The Us9 protein is considered a membrane protein. Between the capsid and the envelope is the tegument, composed of at least 17 proteins.