Is phage DNA 'injected' into cells-biologists and physicists can agree

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 401-409

  Grayson, Paul ^a   Molineux, Ian J ^b  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

BACTERIOPHAGE; CYTOPLASM; FLUID FLOW; HOST CELL; HYDRODYNAMICS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOPHAGES; DNA, VIRAL; OSMOTIC PRESSURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34548608863     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2007.04.004     Document Type: Review

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