PMID: 6410621May 1, 1983Paper

Electron microscope study of the intracellular development of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophage phi KZ

Zhurnal mikrobiologii, epidemiologii, i immunobiologii
T A SmirnovaV N Krylov

Abstract

The study of the ultrathin sections of cells infected with virulent phage phi KZ has confirmed the presence of a specific cylindrical formation, an inner body, in the head of this phage and revealed the spiral structure of this inner body. The formation of DNA condensates whose structure resembles a spring wound around the core (the inner body) has been shown to occur in the cells in the process of the ultracellular development of phage phi KZ. This development leads to characteristic changes in the cellular structure, and in particular in the cell walls and the nucleoid.

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