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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 13.
Published in final edited form as: Biopolymers. 2007 Feb 5;85(2):115–130. doi: 10.1002/bip.20627

FIGURE 2.

FIGURE 2

Images of packaged viral DNA. This figure shows two recent reconstructions using cryo electron microsopy of the packaged DNA. (A) Phage ε15 DNA from Jiang et al.11—reconstruction without symmetry (reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd). The size of the scale bar is 10 nm. (B) Phage P22 DNA, with the portal shown in red (courtesy: Gabriel Lander and Jack Johnson). This view is looking into the capsid at the portal (the entry site for DNA) and the green hoops reflect density corresponding to the packed DNA.