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Bull Exp Biol Med
; 131(4): 356-60, 2001 Apr.
Artículo
en Inglés
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-11719926
RESUMEN
DNA packing of bacteriophage phikz (Pseudomonas aeruginosa) was studied by electron microscopy after gentle destruction of the capsid with powerful laser impulse in aqueous virus suspension in the presence organic dye. Suspension of destroyed phage heads contained complexes of genomic DNA with endogenous capsid proteins characterized by pronounced regular structure. The type of these structures corresponds to one the main model of phage DNA packing, the so-called coil packing.