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Subject: COMPOSITION AND ORIGIN OF VIRAL CAPSIDS

Date: Sun Aug 7 21:29:48 2005
Posted by Aleksandr
Grade level: 7-9 School: No school entered.
City: Springfield State/Province: Virginia Country: Fairfax
Area of science: Virology
ID: 1123468188.Vi
Message:

What proteins are viral capsids made of? What proteins in cells are they most closely related to? (I do not need a detailed description of the structure, just the type of proteins.) How could they have originated? I would ask the same thing of envelope proteins,(envelope lipids are derived from the host cell), the injection structures of bacteriophages, and the complex membranes of poxviruses and baculoviruses

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