HOST SPECIFICITY OF DNA PRODUCED BY ESCHERICHIA-COLI .1. HOST CONTROLLED MODIFICATION OF BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA
HOST SPECIFICITY OF DNA PRODUCED BY ESCHERICHIA-COLI .1. HOST CONTROLLED MODIFICATION OF BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA
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DOI:
10.1016/s0022-2836(62)80058-8
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发表时间:
1962-01-01
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
DUSSOIX, D
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作者:
ARBER, W;DUSSOIX, D
Lambda bacteriophage particles carry a "host specificity" determined by the bacterial strains on which they were produced. Upon infection of a different bacterial host (1) the phage DNA may be either accepted or rejected on the basis of this specificity, (2) if accepted, the phage multiplies and progeny phage are produced. Those progeny to which the parental phage DNA molecule is transferred, in either conserved or semi-conserved form, also receive the parental phage host specificity. All progeny containing only newly synthesized DNA receive only the specificity of the new bacterial host. It is concluded that host specificity is carried on the bacteriophage DNA. Phage P1, present in a bacterial cell as either prophage or vegetative phage, imparts to A DNA multiplying in the same cell a host specificity over and above that determined by the host itself. Such P1- induced specificity can be impressed equally well onto replicating and non-replicating K DNA.