PMID:18710489
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Serwer, P, Wright, ET, Hakala, KW and Weintraub, ST (2008) Evidence for bacteriophage T7 tail extension during DNA injection. BMC Res Notes 1:36 |
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| Abstract |
Electron micrographs of bacteriophage T7 reveal a tail shorter than needed to reach host cytoplasm during infection-initiating injection of a T7 DNA molecule through the tail and cell envelope. However, recent data indicate that internal T7 proteins are injected before the DNA molecule is injected. Thus, bacteriophage/host adsorption potentially causes internal proteins to become external and lengthen the tail for DNA injection. But, the proposed adsorption-induced tail lengthening has never been visualized. |
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PubMed PMC2525648 Online version:10.1186/1756-0500-1-36 |
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