Viruses are nature’s master engineers ... reimagining nanocages in tetrahedral, octahedral, and icosahedral shapes. The standout is the icosahedral nanocage, with a diameter of 75 nanometers ...

Based on a comparison of known virus types and an icosahedral virus isolated from a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park, the team found that coat proteins in all viral types that inhabit the three ...

Structural data on virion architecture, complemented with genomic data analyses, have allowed us to propose a scenario of how these icosahedral dsDNA viruses might have evolved. These findings not ...

The 3.0 Å resolution crystal structure of Pariacoto virus (PaV) reveals extensive interactions between portions of the viral RNA genome and the icosahedral capsid. Under the protein shell of the ...

Viruses of bacteria ... Over 90% of phages have tailed icosahedral heads that, after inserting their nucleic acid into the bacterial cell, terminate their infections by lysing the cells they ...