Precise determination of the helical repeat of tobacco mosaic virus

Journal Article · Wed Dec 05 00:00:00 EST 2007 · Virology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2007.08.013· OSTI ID:21078001

Kendall, Amy; McDonald, Michele ^[1]; Stubbs, Gerald ^[1]

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1. Department of Biological Sciences and Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, Box 1634-B, Nashville, TN 37235 (United States)

Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) is widely used as a distance standard in electron microscopy, fiber diffraction, and other imaging techniques. The dimension used as a reference is the pitch of the viral helix, 23 A. This distance, however, has never been measured with any great degree of precision. The helical pitch of TMV has been determined to be 22.92 {+-} 0.03 A by X-ray fiber diffraction methods using highly collimated synchrotron radiation.

• OSTI ID: 21078001
• Journal Information: Virology, Vol. 369, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2007.08.013; PII: S0042-6822(07)00513-2; Copyright (c) 2007 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0042-6822
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES
ACCURACY
DIFFRACTION
DIFFRACTION METHODS
ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
FIBERS
SYNCHROTRON RADIATION
TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS
X RADIATION