Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 8-18 , March 2008

The effect of N- or C-terminal alterations of the connector of bacteriophage phi29 DNA packaging motor on procapsid assembly, pRNA binding, and DNA packaging

  • Ying Cai, PhD
    • ,
  • Feng Xiao, MS
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  • Peixuan Guo, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Nanomedicine Development Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Vontz Center for Molecular Studies, College of Engineering/College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, 3125 Eden Avenue, Rm 2308, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA.

Received 8 August 2007 ,Accepted 11 October 2007.

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 This research was supported by National Institutes of Health grant R01-EB03730.

PII: S1549-9634(07)00245-6

doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2007.10.084

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