Primary Recipient

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA (THE)

Amount

$1,023,621.00

Award Date

6/02/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Large DNA viruses, bacterial viruses ('bacteriophages' or 'phages') and eukaryotic viruses such as herpes viruses, package the viral genome inside a protein shell (capsid). The bacteriophage T4, which infects E. coli, packages a 171-kb 56 micrometer long