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Sensitivity to Ultra-violet Light of Infectious Tobacco Mosaic Virus Nucleic Acid

Nature volume 178, pages 1117–1118 (1956)Cite this article

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STRAINS of tobacco mosaic virus differ markedly in sensitivity to inactivation with ultra-violet light1. It is of interest to determine the basis for this difference in terms of the chemical structure of the virus strains. The discovery that the nucleic acid portion of the virus is by itself infectious2,3 has enabled us to carry out experiments on the problem.

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    ALBERT SIEGEL & S. G. WILDMAN

  2. Atomic Energy Project, University of California, Los Angeles

    WILLIAM GINOZA

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SIEGEL, A., WILDMAN, S. & GINOZA, W. Sensitivity to Ultra-violet Light of Infectious Tobacco Mosaic Virus Nucleic Acid. Nature 178, 1117–1118 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/1781117a0

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