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Lysis protein T of bacteriophage T4.
Molecular & general genetics : MGG - 1 Nov 1992
Lu M J, Henning U
Abstract excerpt
Lysis protein T of phage T4 is required to allow the phage's lysozyme to reach the murein layer of the cell envelope and cause lysis. Using fusions of the cloned gene t with that of the Escherichia coli alkaline phosphatase or a fragment of the gene for the outer membrane protein OmpA, it was possible to identify T as an integral protein of the plasma membrane. The protein was present in the membrane as a...
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