Find a virus with armor
Text created by automatic translator Elia and has not been subsequently revised by translators. Elia Elhuyar
An international group of researchers from Stanford and Upsala Universities and the Scripps and Pittsburgh Institutes have discovered a virus protected by protein armor. This is the first time this structure is seen. The bacteriophage virus HK97 has a tail shape associated with a balloon, with the head formed by 72 protein rings, 12 pentagons and 60 hexagons. These are united together as Olympic rings surrounding the virus DNA molecule. The armor looks like a 20-sided soccer ball and probably serves to protect the virus. For their part, researchers consider that it can have interesting applications in nanotechnology, since the structure is very stable.
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