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Cohelical arrangement of the DNA strand in the core of Marek's disease virus particles

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Electron microscopic studies on Marek's disease virus demonstrated that fibrils of 20 to 30 Å were arranged in a cohelical configuration within an electronopaque band of about 100 Å thickness in the core of immature particles. These fibrils were presumed to be the DNA double helix itself. This configuration may represent an arrangement of the herpesvirus DNA.

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  1. Department of Comparative Pathology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

    K. Okada & Y. Fujimoto

  2. Department of Experimental Radiobiology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

    Y. H. Nakanishi

  3. Department of Epizootiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

    M. Onuma & T. Mikami

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Okada, K., Fujimoto, Y., Nakanishi, Y.H. et al. Cohelical arrangement of the DNA strand in the core of Marek's disease virus particles. Archives of Virology 64, 81–85 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01317393

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