A liquid culture of ATCC 607 infected with two mycobacterial phages and exposed to constant magnetic fields 0.8 G for 48 hours was replanted on simple agar media without oleic acidalbumin enrichment. In both phages a pronounced stimulating effect was observed demonstrated in the phage No. 308 by almost confluent lysis in magnetized culture and in the phage 33 D by uncountable lytic plaques. Magnetized phage cultures could be preferably used for preparing rich stock suspensions also from poorly growing phages needed for phage classification of mycobacteria.
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January 2025
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Membrane fusion is central to fundamental cellular processes such as exocytosis, when an intracellular machinery fuses membrane-enclosed vesicles to the plasma membrane for contents release. The core machinery components are the SNARE proteins. SNARE complexation pulls the membranes together, but the fusion mechanism remains unclear.
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Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Punjab, India.
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