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Oriented degradation of the genome of cyanophage AN-23 after exposure to NaCl. / Bancroft, I.; Smith, R. J.
In: New Phytologist, Vol. 121, No. 4, 1992, p. 571-575.

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Bancroft I, Smith RJ. Oriented degradation of the genome of cyanophage AN-23 after exposure to NaCl. New Phytologist. 1992;121(4):571-575. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1992.tb01127.x

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Bancroft, I. ; Smith, R. J. / Oriented degradation of the genome of cyanophage AN-23 after exposure to NaCl. In: New Phytologist. 1992 ; Vol. 121, No. 4. pp. 571-575.

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abstract = "The low tolerance of cyanophage AN-23 to NaCl at more than 0·05 M has been investigated. When isolated from clarified lysates that had been exposed to NaCl in the presence of added DNAse I, the phage genomic DNA consisted of a series of discrete fragments. The fragments were recovered from low melting temperature agarose electrophoresis gels and used for restriction analysis. Comparison of the restriction cleavage products with a restriction map of the 46 kbp AN-23 genome has shown that the fragments are generated by removal of DNA from one end of the linear genome in steps of about 3 kbp. The data are consistent with a model in which NaCl triggers the ejection of the phage genome from the capsid.",
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