Filamentous bacteriophage stability in non-aqueous media
Filamentous bacteriophage stability in non-aqueous media
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DOI:
10.1016/s1074-5521(01)00041-2
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发表时间:
2001-07-01
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通讯作者:
Nicholls, IA
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作者:
Olofsson, L;Ankarloo, J;Nicholls, IA
Background: Filamentous bacteriophage are used as general cloning vectors as well as phage display vectors in order to study li.-and-receptor interactions. Exposure to biphasic chloroform-water interface leads to specific contraction of phage, to noninfective I- or S-forms.Results: Upon exposure. phage were inactivated (non-infective) at methanol, ethanol and I-propanol concentrations inversely dependent upon alcohol hydrophobicity. Infectivity loss of phage at certain concentrations of I-propanol or ethanol coincided with changes in the spectral properties of the fl virion in ultraviolet fluorescence and circular dichroism studies.Conclusions: The alcohols inactivate filamentous phage by a general mechanism - solvation of coat protein - thereby disrupting the capsid in a manner quite different from the previously reported I- and S-forms. The infectivity retention of phagemid pG8H6 in 99% acetonitrile and the relatively high general solvent resistance of the phage strains studied here open up the possibility of employing phage display in non-aqueous media. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.