Abstract：
:Adsorption of lambda-phage on sensitive bacteria Escherichia coli is a classical problem but not all issues have been resolved. One of the outstanding problems is the rate of adsorption, which in some cases appears to exceed the theoretical limit imposed by the law of random diffusion. We revisit this problem by conducting experiments along with new theoretical analyses. Our measurements show that upon incubating lambda-phage with bacteria Ymel, the population of unbound phage in a salt buffer decreases with time and in general obeys a double-exponential function characterized by a fast (tau(1)) and a slow (tau(2)) decay time. We found that both the fast and the slow processes are specific to interactions between lambda-phage and its receptor LamB. Such specificity motivates a kinetic model that describes the interaction between the phage and the receptor as an on-and-off process followed by an irreversible binding. The latter may be a signature of the initiation of DNA translocation. The kinetic model successfully predicts the double exponential behavior seen in the experiment and allows the corresponding rate constants to be extracted from single measurements. The weak temperature dependence of the reversible and the irreversible binding rate suggests that phage retention by the receptor is entropic in nature and that a molecular key-lock interaction may be an appropriate description of the interaction between the phage tail and the receptor.
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Biophys Jjournal_title
Biophysical journalauthors
Moldovan R,Chapman-McQuiston E,Wu XLdoi
10.1529/biophysj.106.102962subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2007-07-01 00:00:00pages
303-15issue
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0006-3495issn
1542-0086pii
S0006-3495(07)71283-3journal_volume
93pub_type
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