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Month: October 2014

Icosahedral Virus Families

virus icosahedric families evolution familias capsides icosaedricas structure evolucion infografia infographics blue tongue BTV picorna like PRD1 HK97 reoviridae adenovirus

El virus Chikungunya

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HK96 virus Escher schwan fold

The HK97 capsid is formed by the arrangement of 420 protein chains into 60 hexamers (Orange-white) and 12 pentamers (Red). The HK97 fold is present not only in a large number of dsDNA bacteriophage capsids, including the T-phages, lambdoid phages, etc, but also in the major capsid protein of eukaryotic herpesviruses. it seems like an escher icosahedron.

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