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Studies on the structure of poliovirus

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Electron micrographs of poliovirus using negative staining technique and rotation technique suggest that the virus probably has 42 morphological subunits and 240 structural units or polypeptides. The structural units may also represent two different types of proteins.

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  1. H. O. Agrawal

    Present address: Department of Molecular Biology and Virus Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

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Agrawal, H.O. Studies on the structure of poliovirus. Archiv f Virusforschung 19, 365–372 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01250605

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