Article
Determination of bacteriophage lambda tail length by a protein ruler.
Nature - 1 Jan 2000
Katsura I
Abstract excerpt
How the size and shape of living structures are determined by genetic information is one of the fundamental problems in biology. Here I describe a study in which the size of a biological supramolecular structure was changed in a predictable way by in vitro genetics, with the size both before and after manipulation being exactly determined. I have studied the tail of bacteriophage lambda, whose length is...
Topics
- Bacteriophage lambda
- Biometry
- Chromosome Deletion
- Genes, Viral
- Mutation
- Viral Proteins
- Viral Tail Proteins