Tailed bacteriophages use nanomotors, or molecular machines that convert chemical
energy into physical movement of molecules, to insert their double-stranded DNA genomes …

A small RNA of Bacillus subtilis bacteriophage φ29 is shown to have a novel and essential
role in viral DNA packaging in vitro. This requirement for RNA in the encapsidation of viral …

The introduction of the use of T-even bacteriophages as genetic and biochemical
experimental systems by Max Delbriick in the late 1930s has led to the intense study of …

Viruses and related particles have been fractionated by electrophoresis through gels. For
agarose gels, the radius at the exclusion limit for spheres varies from 1500 nm in a 0.04 …

PRD1 is the type virus of the Tectiviridae family. Its linear double-stranded DNA genome has
covalently attached terminal proteins and is surrounded by a membrane, which is further …

Initiation events in the packaging of bacteriophage φ29 DNA-gp3 (DNA-gene product 3
complex) were studied in a completely defined in-vitro system that included purified …

Bacteriophage ψ6 is a double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) virus that has a genome composed of
three linear dsRNA segments (l, m, s). These are encapsidated into a dodecahedral …

Revised Manuscript Received August 27, 1993® abstract: Terminases are enzymes
common to all of the complex double-stranded DNA viruses and are required for viral …

We developed a system for DNA packaging of isolated bacteriophage T4 proheads in vitro
and studied the role of prohead expansion in DNA packaging. Biologically active proheads …

Tailed icosahedral bacteriophages and other viruses package their double-stranded DNA
inside a preformed procapsid. In a large number of phages packaging is initiated by …