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Electron Microscopy of Viral RNA

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Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Part of the book series: Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology ((CT MICROBIOLOGY,volume 94/95))

Abstract

The electron microscopy of nucleic acid molecules has become a routine tool in the analysis of genome structure and function. This is primarily due to the availability of simple reliable methods for the visualization of single- and double-stranded DNA and RNA molecules, of RNA-DNA hybrids, and of nucleic acid-protein complexes. Most of these methods were developed by using viral genomes because these nucleic acid molecules were of considerable physical homogeneity and could be produced in abundant quantities

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