The structural organization of DNA packaged within the heads of T4 wild-type, isometric and giant bacteriophages - PubMed (original) (raw)
The structural organization of DNA packaged within the heads of T4 wild-type, isometric and giant bacteriophages
W C Earnshaw et al. Cell. 1978 Jul.
Abstract
We present electron microscopic and X-ray diffraction evidence concerning the structural organization of condensed DNA within a series of T4 bacteriophage with the following head morphologies: prolate (wild-type), isometric and giant (with greatly increased axial ratio). In all cases, the DNA helix segments are locally parallel and 27 A apart. For the giant particles, we show that the DNA forms a large coil whose axis is perpendicular to the axis of the phage tail. This evidence, combined with previous results from a series of isometric bacteriophages (Earnshaw and Harrison, 1977), leads to a model for the organization of condensed DNA that may apply to most dsDNA-containing bacteriophages.
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