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capsomer

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capsomer /cap·so·mer/ (kap´so-mer) a morphological unit of the capsid of a virus.
capsomer [kap´so-mer] (capsomere [kap´so-mēr]) a morphological unit of the capsid of a virus.
capsomer, capsomere
a morphological unit of the capsid of a virus.


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Those capsomer counts correspond perfectly with those of the four predominant classes of viruses with icosahedral symmetry that Caspar and Klug had identified in the 1960s.
Nucleocapsids appeared to be angular and surface capsomer arrangement obvious.
 
 
 
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