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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nanomedicine. 2014 Mar 18;10(7):1433–1440. doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2014.03.005

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Schematic illumination of the structure of bacteriophage phi29 DNA packaging motor. (A) Cartoon depiction of whole motor components with procapsid. (B) Three dimensional model of connector, pRNA, and hexameric gp16 ring assembled around DNA gp16 with DNA. (C) Ball-and-stick model. (D) Top view (E) and side view of the pRNA hexamer model. (F) AFM images of hexameric re-engineered pRNA ring.