Bacterial lysis by phage - A theoretical model

Avinoam Rabinovitch; Arieh Zaritsky; Itzhak Fishov; Monica Einav; Hilla Hadas

doi:10.1006/jtbi.1999.1029

Bacterial lysis by phage - A theoretical model

Avinoam Rabinovitch, Arieh Zaritsky, Itzhak Fishov, Monica Einav, Hilla Hadas

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The similarity to materials corrosion is invoked to develop a model for phage-infected bacterial lysis based on the statistics of extremes. The importance of cell size, envelope thickness and lysozyme eclipse time on the final probability distribution of lysis is considered. Experiments are suggested to test the model.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	209-213
Number of pages	5
Journal	Journal of Theoretical Biology
Volume	201
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1006/jtbi.1999.1029
State	Published - 7 Dec 1999

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Statistics and Probability
Modeling and Simulation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all)
Immunology and Microbiology (all)
Agricultural and Biological Sciences (all)
Applied Mathematics

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