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Phage pilHα: a Phage Which Adsorbs to IncHI and IncHII Plasmid-coded Pili Free

Abstract

Phage pilHα was specific for bacterial strains, of various genera, harbouring plasmids of the HI and HII incompatibility groups. Plaque formation was temperature sensitive in that plaques formed at 26°C but not at 37°C. Plaques were fairly clear, irregular in outline and varied from pin point to about 2 mm in diameter on all hosts where plaques were detected. The phage had an isometric hexagonal outline with a diameter of 25 nm. It contained RNA but differed from all but one other plasmid-dependent RNA phage by being sensitive to chloroform. It adsorbed along the length of the shafts of IncHI and HII plasmid-coded pili.

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Phage pilHα: a Phage Which Adsorbs to IncHI and IncHII Plasmid-coded Pili
Microbiology 131, 1115 (1985); https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-131-5-1115
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