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A new bacterial factor has been found necessary for the activity of T4 gene 31, the only catalytic factor in the early stage of phage head formation, to process the assembly of head precursor proteins. In a mutant missing this factor, the precursors of phage head aggregate on the bacterial membrane.
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TAKANO, T., KAKEFUDA, T. Involvement of a Bacterial Factor in Morphogenesis of Bacteriophage Capsid. Nature New Biology 239, 34–37 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio239034a0
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