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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Apr 19.
Published in final edited form as: Nanomedicine. 2008 Jan 16;4(1):8–18. doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2007.10.084

Table 3.

Effect of N- and C-terminal extensions with/without truncations on the procapsid structure and function*

Procapsid
mutant		 Procapsid
morphology		 DNA
packaging		 Virion
assembly
N-Ex Normal ↓ 10-fold ↓ 100-fold
C-Ex Normal ↓ 10-fold ↓ 10-fold
N-DeEx Normal ~0 ~0
C-DeEx Normal ↓ 100-fold ~0
*

The DNA packaging activity and phage assembly activity were given relative to those of the wild-type procapsid.