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. 1972 Apr;9(4):664–671. doi: 10.1128/jvi.9.4.664-671.1972

Morphology and Physical Properties of Staphylococcus Bacteriophage P11-M15

Dennis T Brown 1, Neal C Brown 1, Byron T Burlingham 1
PMCID: PMC356352  PMID: 4112070

Abstract

The Group B Staphylococcus phage P11-M15 is shown to be 51% protein and 49% deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The intact virion has a molecular weight of 66.7 × 106 daltons. The purified viral DNA has a molecular weight of 32.7 × 106 daltons. The intact virion is shown to be composed of a polyhedral head which is attached at one of its vertices to a flexible tail having helical symmetry. The tail structure is terminated by a complex baseplate which has sixfold symmetry. The virion contains a single molecule of double-stranded DNA which has no apparent single-strand nicks or single-stranded terminal redundancies.

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