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Electric field effects on the virus M13, detected by electro-optical measurements
1Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Biocenter of the University of Basel, Switzerland.
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
|March 15, 1988
Abstract:
We have carried out transient electric birefringence experiments with M13 in aqueous solution. A normal effect with a negative sign is superimposed by anomalous positive effects. These prevail more and more upon raising the field strength. They apparently reflect electrically induced structural transitions. The threshold field strength decreases when buffer and/or electrolyte is removed.