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Infectivity of Ribonucleic Acid from Tobacco Mosaic Virus

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IN their experiments with bacteriophages, Hershey and Chase1 have shown that only the nucleic acid component plays a part in the intracellular multiplication. There are also indications that in simple viruses containing ribonucleic acid the nucleic acid plays a dominant part in the infection. Thus, experiments with tobacco mosaic virus have shown that the protein can be changed chemically without affecting the activity and the genetic properties2; recently, it was even found3 that part of the protein can be removed from tobacco mosaic virus without destroying the activity.

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GIERER, A., SCHRAMM, G. Infectivity of Ribonucleic Acid from Tobacco Mosaic Virus. Nature 177, 702–703 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177702a0

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