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Escherichia coli bacteriophage T4 uses the lipopolysaccharide of the outer cell envelope membrane as a receptor. Lipopolysaccharide from E. coli K-12 required a major outer membrane protein, polypeptide Ib, for phage inactivation.
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Henning et al. (1979) studied this question.
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