Article
Effect of thermoinduced changes in T4 bacteriophage structure on the process of molecular recognition of 'host' cells.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Feb 1992
Khusainov A A, Shilnikov G V, Emelyanenko V E, Ivanitsky G R
Abstract excerpt
By means of high-precision acoustic measurements and by methods of fluorescent and electron microscopy, investigations have been performed of thermoinduced conformational changes in T4 bacteriophage and its thermolabile mutants altered in baseplate proteins (gene products 7, 8, 10). A relationship was found between the conformational changes in T4 bacteriophage structure in the temperature range of 33-45 degrees...
Topics
- Attachment Sites, Microbiological
- Escherichia coli
- Hot Temperature
- Microscopy, Electron
- Models, Biological
- Molecular Conformation
- Mutation
- T-Phages
- Ultrasonics