Emerging topics in physical virology / editors, Peter G. Stockley, Reidun Twarock. — London : Imperial College Press, c2010. – (58.679/E53)

Contents

    Contents
    
    Contributors
    Preface
    Chapter 1: Cryo-Electron Microscopy of Viruses
    Chapter 2: What Does it Take to Make a Virus: The Concept of the Viral 'Self'
    Chapter 3: Beyond Quasi-Equivalence: New Insights Into Viral Architecture via Affine Extended Symmetry Groups
    Chapter 4: Mechanical Properties of Viruses
    Chapter 5: Investigating Viral Structure， Function and Dynamics with Mass Spectrometry
    Chapter 6: An Overview of Capsid Assembly Kinetics
    Chapter 7: Assembly and Disassembly of Deltahedral Viral Shells
    Chapter 8: What Determines the Size of an RNA Virus? 185
    Chapter 9: Physics of Viral Infectivity: Matching Genome Length with Capsid Size
    Chapter 10: Topology of Viral DNA
    Chapter 11: The Use of Viruses in Biomedical Nanotechnology 289
    Index