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Four kinds of particles were reconstituted with RNA and protein from the genetically unrelated bacteriophages Qbeta and MS2, namely, two homologous and two heterologous, with respect to RNA and protein. However, once Qbeta RNA (or MS2 RNA) reacted with a few molecules of either Qbeta or MS2 protein to form a nucleoprotein complex (initiation complex), it formed a phagelike particle only with subsequent addition of the same protein.
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