Salk Institute - Lyumkis lab - AAV2 (IMAGE)

Salk Institute

Salk Institute - Lyumkis lab - AAV2

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Electron microscopy provides new view of tiny virus with therapeutic potential. Inset shows the cryo-EM derived structure of an AAV2. Full image shows the experimentally determined density (gray) and the fitted atomic model based on that density. For almost every atom in the amino acids (the building blocks of proteins) in the reconstruction, we can begin to see the full atomic structure, including oxygens (red), nitrogens (blue), carbons (yellow), and sulfurs (green).

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