PRODUCTION OF BACTERIOPHAGE MUTANTS BY A DISTURBANCE OF DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID METABOLISM
PRODUCTION OF BACTERIOPHAGE MUTANTS BY A DISTURBANCE OF DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID METABOLISM
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DOI:
10.1038/178529b0
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发表时间:
1956-01-01
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影响因子:
64.8
通讯作者:
PARDEE, AB
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作者:
LITMAN, RM;PARDEE, AB
N experiments in which the pyrimidine derivative| 5. bromouracil was incorporated into the deoxyribonucleic acid of T2r" bacteriophage, according to the method of Dunn and Smith", it was observed that, a large number of a variety of plaque-type mutants appeared among the progeny phages, as illustrated in Fig. 1. The observation of this appar-ently powerful mutagenic effect of 5-bromouracil led us to an investigation of the conditions upon which the production of phage mutant depends. In a typical experiment, a culture of Escherichia, coli, strain B, was grown with aeration at 37 C. in complete medium supplemented with 50 gm./ml. 5. bronnouracil, for four generations to a density of 2 y 108 cells/ml.(Complete medium is a glucosesalts medium? supplemented with l mgm./ml. sulphanilamide, 1 mgm./ml. vitamin-free casein hydrolysate, 25 pgm./ml. xanthine, and uracil equal 5 5 per cent of any 5-bromouracil added. We had found that when commercial 5-bromouracil, which