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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Wiley Interdiscip Rev Nanomed Nanobiotechnol. 2015 Feb 13;7(5):722–735. doi: 10.1002/wnan.1336

FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 1

The symmetry of VLPs reflects a single change over the entire particle. The VLP from bacteriophage P22 is shown with a serine to cysteine point mutation at amino acid position 39, displayed as a red sphere. This single mutation provides a new site at each of the 420 coat proteins that make up the capsid. (Reprinted with permission from Ref 4. Copyright 2012 Nature Publishing Group)