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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, capsomere
a morphological unit of the capsid of a virus.


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the shell of protein that protects the nucleic acid of a virus; it is composed of structural units, or capsomers.
Frog virus 3 infection, cultured American bullfrogs by Baldwin, Charles A. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
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.
Armor-plated puzzle: deciphering the code of viral geometry by Weiss, Peter Ulrich / Science News
the shell of protein that protects the nucleic acid of a virus; it is composed of structural units, or capsomers.
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