Published December 5, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Precise determination of the helical repeat of tobacco mosaic virus

  • 1. Department of Biological Sciences and Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, Box 1634-B, Nashville, TN 37235 (United States)

Description

Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) is widely used as a distance standard in electron microscopy, fiber diffraction, and other imaging techniques. The dimension used as a reference is the pitch of the viral helix, 23 A. This distance, however, has never been measured with any great degree of precision. The helical pitch of TMV has been determined to be 22.92 ± 0.03 A by X-ray fiber diffraction methods using highly collimated synchrotron radiation

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2007.08.013

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.virol.2007.08.013;
PII
S0042-6822(07)00513-2;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Virology
Journal Volume
369
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 226-227
ISSN
0042-6822
CODEN
VIRLAX

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
39090420
Subject category
S60: APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES;
Descriptors DEI
ACCURACY; DIFFRACTION; DIFFRACTION METHODS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIBERS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS; X RADIATION
Descriptors DEC
BREMSSTRAHLUNG; COHERENT SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MICROORGANISMS; MICROSCOPY; PARASITES; RADIATIONS; SCATTERING; VIRUSES

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Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.