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Control of bacteriophage T4 tail lysozyme activity during the infection process.
Journal of molecular biology - 4 Mar 2005
Kanamaru Shuji, Ishiwata Yasutaka, Suzuki Toshiharu, Rossmann Michael G, Arisaka Fumio
Abstract excerpt
Bacteriophage T4 has an efficient mechanism for injecting the host Escherichiacoli cell with genomic DNA. Its gene product 5 (gp5) has a needle-like structure attached to the end of a tube through which the DNA passes on its way out of the head and into the host. The gp5 needle punctures the outer cell membrane and then digests the peptidoglycan cell wall in the periplasmic space. gp5 is normally...
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