DESCRIPTION OF VIRUSES

Genus Potexvirus

Figure Gallery

Figure Gallery

Figure 1 Negative contrast electron micrograph of a Potato virus X (PVX) particle. The bar represents 100  nm. (Micrograph courtesy of D-E Lesemann.)

Figure 2 Schematic representation of the folding of the polypeptide chain of the Potato virus X (PVX) capsid protein; -helices shown as cylinders and -strands as arrows, the N- and C-termini of the chain are indicated and the positions of some amino acid residues are numbered. (From Baratova, Grebenshchikov, Dobrov, Gedrovich, Kashirin, Shishkov, Efomov, Jarvekulg, Radavsky and Saarma, 1992; Virology 188, 175.)

Figure 3 Potato virus X (PVX) genome structure and expression. (From Atebekov, 1995.)