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Electron Tomography Revealed Compact DNA in the Nucleus-like Compartment, Formed in the Bacterial Cell During Infection by the phiKZ Bacteriophage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 July 2020

Yana Danilova
Affiliation:
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology, Moscow, Moskva, Russia
Maria Yakunina
Affiliation:
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg City, Russia
Andrey Moiseenko
Affiliation:
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology, Moscow, Moskva, Russia
Victoria Belousova
Affiliation:
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg City, Russia
Innokentiy Vishnyakov
Affiliation:
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg City, Russia
Olga Sokolova
Affiliation:
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology, Moscow, Moskva, Russia

Abstract

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Type
Microbes in Focus
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2020

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The work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (grant № 19-74-10030 – phage propagation and DNA quantity dynamics; grant 19-74-30003 – electron microscopical and tomographical studies).Google Scholar