prohead

English

Etymology

pro- +‎ head

Noun

prohead (plural proheads)

  1. A procapsid.
    • 2015 December 4, “DNA Packaging Specificity of Bacteriophage N15 with an Excursion into the Genetics of a Cohesive End Mismatch”, in PLOS ONE‎, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0141934:
      The concatemers are processed into mature chromosomes with cohesive ends, and packaged into prohead shells, during virion assembly.
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