Molecular mechanism of RNA phage morphogenesis.

Recent progress on the molecular mechanism of RNA phage morphogenesis is described. Functional studies, both in vivo and in vitro, are correlated with the latest structural studies on phages, their capsids and the assembly initiation RNA stem-loop.

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