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Presentation of functional foreign peptides on the surface of SV40 virus-like particles.

Distinct DNA exit and packaging portals in the virus Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus.

Role for the L1-52/55K protein in the serotype specificity of adenovirus DNA packaging.

Epigenetic reprogramming of the male genome during gametogenesis and in the zygote.

Contributions of spermatozoa to embryogenesis: assays to evaluate their genetic and epigenetic fitness.

The ATPase domain of the large terminase protein, gp17, from bacteriophage T4 binds DNA: implications to the DNA packaging mechanism.

[Gene therapy for brain tumors: strategy utilizing herpes simplex virus type 1]

The role of DNA twist in the packaging of viral genomes.

Three-dimensional architecture of the bacteriophage phi29 packaged genome and elucidation of its packaging process.

SaPI mutations affecting replication and transfer and enabling autonomous replication in the absence of helper phage.

Analysis of intermolecular base pair formation of prohead RNA of the phage phi29 DNA packaging motor using NMR spectroscopy.

The bacteriophage DNA packaging motor.

Portal motor velocity and internal force resisting viral DNA packaging in bacteriophage phi29.

Bovine adenovirus-3 E1A coding region contain cis-acting DNA packaging motifs.

Mammalian sperm chromatin structure and assessment of DNA fragmentation.

A kinetic analysis of DNA ejection from tailed phages revealing the prerequisite activation energy.

Pressure built by DNA packing inside virions: enough to drive DNA ejection in vitro, largely insufficient for delivery into the bacterial cytoplasm.

Measurements of single DNA molecule packaging dynamics in bacteriophage lambda reveal high forces, high motor processivity, and capsid transformations.

Histone H3 Arg2 methylation provides alternative directions for COMPASS.

The conformation of double-stranded DNA inside bacteriophages depends on capsid size and shape.