Browsing by Subject "membrane fusion"
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(2018-08-08)Spanins are bacteriophage lysis proteins responsible for disruption of outer membrane (OM), the last step of phage lysis in Gram-negative hosts. The absence of spanins results in a terminal phenotype of fragile spherical ...
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(2015-04-28)The work described in this dissertation addresses how spanins function during phage lysis, focusing on the 2CS system of phage lambda, in which Rz and Rz1 are the prototype i-spanin (inner membrane subunit) and o-spanin ...