On episode #29 of the podcast This Week in Microbiology, Vincent and Stanley review how a phage pierces the cell membrane with an iron-loaded spike, and two programmed cell death systems in E. coli.
You can find TWiM #29 at microbeworld.org/twim.
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While looking at http://htwins.net/scale2/scale2.swf?bordercolor=white it struck me that it would be super cool if these spikes opened once inside the cell membrane like drywall anchors, allowing the DNA molecule to pass through them, instead of simply falling off.