[The role of temperature as a factor of structure and functional fit of a "prey" virus based on the example of phage T4].

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[The role of temperature as a factor of structure and functional fit of a "prey" virus based on the example of phage T4].

Biofizika - 1 Jan 2000

Khusainov A A, Shil'nikov G V, Emel'ianenko V I, Ivanitskiĭ G R

Abstract excerpt

By means of high-precision acoustic measurements and by the methods of fluorescent and electron microscopy investigations were performed of thermoinduced conformational changes in T4 bacteriophage and its thermolabile mutants altered in baseplate proteins (gene products "7", "8", "10"). A relatio...

Topics

Escherichia coli
Genes, Viral
Mutation
T-Phages
Temperature

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