STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTED WITH PHIX174 TYPE BACTERIOPHAGE
STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTED WITH PHIX174 TYPE BACTERIOPHAGE
复制标题
DOI:
10.1099/0022-1317-5-1-113
复制
发表时间:
1969-01-01
影响因子:
3.8
通讯作者:
ROBERTSON, D
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
BRADLEY, DE;DEWAR, CA;ROBERTSON, D
The coliphage α 3, which is morphologically similar to φX174, was shown by acridine orange staining to contain single-stranded DNA. Its infective process was studied by the electron microscopy of thin sections ofEscherichia coliinfected at high multiplicity. The latent period was found to be about 13 min. but no obvious structural changes were visible in host cells until 10 min. after infection, when the plasma membrane began to retract from the poles. At 14 min. intracellular phage was detected and bulges appeared on the cells at their midpoint. At 21 min. many cells were in the form of spheroplasts and others were beginning to lyse. Spheroplasts formed by phage infection lysed differently from those produced by penicillin.