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Assembly site of cyanophage LPP-2-SPI in Plectonema boryanum
J Silverberg1, A Rimon, M Kessel
1Department of Microbiological Chemistry, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
Virology
|March 1, 1977
Abstract:
Electron microscope studies of infection by the temperature cyanophage SPI show two possible assembly sites within the host Plectonema boryanum: the nucleoplasm and a phage-created space, the "virogenic stroma". Induced prophages appear to develop preferentially in the nucleoplasm.