Diameter of capsid

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Value 58 nm
Organism Bacteriophage Lambda
Reference Garcia HG, Grayson P, Han L, Inamdar M, Kondev J, Nelson PC, Phillips R, Widom J, Wiggins PA. Biological consequences of tightly bent DNA: the other life of a macromolecular celebrity. Biopolymers. 2007 Feb 5 85(2):115-30.PubMed ID17103419
Primary Source Earnshaw WC, Harrison SC. DNA arrangement in isometric phage heads. Nature. 1977 Aug 18 268(5621):598-602.PubMed ID401433
Method Electron microscopy, X ray diffraction
Comments For value of 50nm see BNID 100235
Entered by Uri M
ID 103122