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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 99, Issue 2, Pages 447-455Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.04.048
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- ANR [ANR-06-PCVI-0002]
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Centre de Competence NanoSciences Ile de France
- French Ministry of Research
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-06-PCVI-0002] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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Bacteriophage T5 DNA ejection is a complex process that occurs on several timescales in vitro. By using a combination of bulk and single phage measurements, we quantitatively study the three steps of the ejection-binding to the host receptor, channel-opening, and DNA release. Each step is separately addressed and its kinetics parameters evaluated. We reconstruct the bulk kinetics from the distribution of single phage events by following individual DNA molecules with unprecedented time resolution. We show that, at the single phage level, the ejection kinetics of the DNA happens by rapid transient bursts that are not correlated to any genome sequence defects. We speculate that these transient pauses are due to local phase transitions of the DNA inside the capsid. We predict that such pauses should be seen for other phages with similar DNA packing ratios.
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