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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Oct 18.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Exp Med Biol. 2012;726:423–439. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-0980-9_19

Figure 5. Stratified representations of the HSV-1 procapsid and mature capsid.

Figure 5

The procapsid is sampled on spherical sections one pixel thick, and the B-capsid on similarly sampled icosahedral sections. Protein density is dark. Half-sections are shown. (A) At a radius of 564 Å, the sections pass above the triplexes. The asymmetry of the procapsid hexons contrasts with the 6-fold symmetry of the mature hexons. (B) At 536 Å radius, the triplexes present as triangular densities. (C) At 503 Å radius, the triplexes present as regular triplets of density. (D) At 470Å radius, the floor domains form regular, non-contacting, rings in the procapsid, and the contiguous floor in the mature capsid.