Analysis of near-neighbor contacts in bacteriophage T4 wedges and hubless baseplates by using a cleavable chemical cross-linker.

1989 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 2427-2436 ◽  
Author(s):  
N R Watts ◽  
D H Coombs
Author(s):  
Fred Eiserling ◽  
A. H. Doermann ◽  
Linde Boehner

The control of form or shape inheritance can be approached by studying the morphogenesis of bacterial viruses. Shape variants of bacteriophage T4 with altered protein shell (capsid) size and nucleic acid (DNA) content have been found by electron microscopy, and a mutant (E920g in gene 66) controlling head size has been described. This mutant produces short-headed particles which contain 2/3 the normal DNA content and which are non-viable when only one particle infects a cell (Fig. 1).We report here the isolation of a new mutant (191c) which also appears to be in gene 66 but at a site distinct from E920g. The most striking phenotype of the mutant is the production of about 10% of the phage yield as “giant” virus particles, from 3 to 8 times longer than normal phage (Fig. 2).


1988 ◽  
Vol 49 (C8) ◽  
pp. C8-61-C8-62
Author(s):  
Ch. Stenzel ◽  
J. Das ◽  
T. Lauritsen ◽  
J. Schecker ◽  
G. D. Sprouse ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (12) ◽  
pp. 2925-2918
Author(s):  
Gabriela Cioca ◽  
Maricel Agop ◽  
Marcel Popa ◽  
Simona Bungau ◽  
Irina Butuc

One of the main challenges in designing a release system is the possibility to control the release rate in order to maintain it at a constant value below a defined limit, to avoid exceeding the toxicity threshold. We propose a method of overcoming this difficulty by introducing the drug into liposomes, prior to its inclusion in the hydrogel. Furthermore, a natural cross linker (as is tannic acid) is used, instead of the toxic cross linkers commonly used, thus reducing the toxicity of the release system as a whole.


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