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Time of packaging the genome into a single capsid

Range	~5 min
Organism	Bacteriophage
Reference	Purohit PK et al., Forces during bacteriophage DNA packaging and ejection. Biophys J. 2005 Feb88(2):851-66. p.852 caption to figure 1PubMed ID15556983
Primary Source	Smith, D. E., S. J. Tans, S. B. Smith, S. Grimes, D. L. Anderson, and C. Bustamante. 2001. The bacteriophage f29 portal motor can package DNA against a large internal force. Nature. 413: 748–752.PubMed ID11607035
Comments	p.852 caption to figure 1:"Life cycle of a bacterial virus. The ejection of the genome into the host cell happens within a minute for phage like ? and T4 (BNID 111587). The eclipse period (time between the viral adsorption and the first appearance of the progeny) can be as short as ~10–15 min (BNID 111585). The packaging of the genome into a single capsid takes ~5 min (primary source). Lysis of the bacterial cell is completed in <1h (BNID 111586)."
Entered by	Uri M
ID	111588