An Introduction to VNPs and Nanotechnology - Viral Nanoparticles: Tools for Materials Science and Biomedicine - page 8

Icosahedral plant viruses An insect virus

BMV CCMV CPMV HCRSV RCNMV TYMV FHV

Icosahedral bacteriophages

MS2 Q b

HK97
Icosahedral mammalian viruses

P22 T7

CPV

Ad

Rod-shaped plant virus and a filamentous phage

M13

TMV

Figure 1.3 A snapshot of the viral nanoparticles (VNPs) that are currently exploited

and developed for materials science and medicine. The list is continuously growing;
these are the VNPs in use as of May 2009. Icosahedral plant viruses:

Brome mosaic

virus (BMV), Cowpea chlorotic mottle virus (CCMV), Cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV),

Hibiscus chlorotic ringspot virus (HCRSV), Red clover necrotic mottle virus (RCNMV),

Turnip yellow mosaic virus (TYMV). Icosahedral insect virus: Flock house virus (FHV).

Icosahedral bacteriophages: HK97, P22, T7, MS2, and Q . Note P22 and T7 are head-

tail phages. The tail is shown for P22, not for T7. Icosahedral mammalian viruses:
Adenovirus

b

and Canine parvovirus (CPV). Rod-shaped and filamentous viruses: Tobacco

mosaic virus (TMV), a plant virus, and M13, a bacteriophage. Images of the following