Kinetics of filamentous phage assembly |
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Authors: | Ploss Martin Kuhn Andreas |
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Institution: | Institute of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, University of Hohenheim, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany. |
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Abstract: | Filamentous phages release their progeny particles by a secretory process without lysing the bacterial cell. By this process about 6 viral particles per min are secreted from each cell. We show here that when the major coat protein (gp8) is provided from a plasmid we observe a phage progeny production rate depending on the induction of gp8 by IPTG. We also show that a transfection of Escherichia coli lacking F-pili is observed using a mutant of M13 that carries an ampicillin resistance gene, and phage particles are secreted in the absence of an F-plasmid. Extruding phage was visualized by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) using gold-labeled antibodies to the major coat protein. |
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