[Does taxis exist in bacterial viruses?].
By way of example of interaction of T4 bacteriophage with E. coli bacterium the scenario of enhancement of sorption of phages on bacteria through the remote mechanism of their cyclic interaction has been considered. An enlargement of the typical phage size, when its fibrillae are opened, underlies this mechanism. Modification of the structure of phages also occurs through the medium by release of products of bacterial metabolism into it. Allied questions related to investigation of physicochemical and biological processes, which require to take into account "fluffing" of microparticles. The medium-induced change of volume of microparticles leads to spatial cooperative effects with non-linear dynamics. Such phenomena are possible in all diffusional processes in biology, chemistry and physics.
Ivanitskiĭ
G R
GR
Medvinskiĭ
A B
AB
Deev
A A
AA
Khusainov
A A
AA
Tsyganov
M A
MA
D017122:Bacteriophage T4 / Q000502:physiology*; D002633:Chemotaxis; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000821:virology