Viral Genome Packaging Machines: Genetics, Structure, and Mechanism

Viral Genome Packaging .,focuses on the process of genome ""packaging"" within a pre-formed viral procapsid. The chapters of this book .,concentrate on the biochemistry, enzymology and structural aspects of the genome packaging machinery. This book .,defines a broad mechanistic basis for the process across the prokaryotic and eukaryotic border, and for DNA and RNA viruses. The biochemical, biophysical and structural aspects of genome packaging are examined in detail.

Research workers in the fields of virology, researchers interested in the biochemistry, biophysics and structure of biological machines, enzymologists interested in macromolecular complexes, including researchers who study DNA replication machines, the transcriptional machinery, helicases, dyneins, flagellar motors, etc., research workers in academia, biotech and the pharmaceutical industry