Electron microscopic study of the structural organization of cholera phage C
Degtiarev, B.M.; Miliutin, V.N.; Grigor'ev, V.B.; Alutin, I.M.; Arutiunov, I.I.
Voprosy Virusologii 6: 735-740
1980
ISSN/ISBN: 0507-4088 PMID: 7222634 Document Number: 167461
Electron microscopy methods were used to determine the main parameters of the structural organization of cholera "C" phage. The particles of the phage were found to consist of a capsid of icosahedral shape and a thin noncontractile process. The capsid with the triangulation number 7 consists of 72 morphological subunits and contains DNA with the molecular weight of (68.16 +/- 1.63) x 10(6) daltons. The process of the phage consists of 216 morphological subunits and ends with a peculiar adsorption apparatus including a distal filament and three fibrils with knobs at the ends.