Solid-to-fluid–like DNA transition in viruses facilitates infection
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Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213; Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037; X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439; Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden; Laboratory of Physical and Structural Biology, Program in Physical Biology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892; and Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Lund University, SE-221 00 Lund, Sweden
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