CARRIER STATE OF BACILLUS SUBTILIS INFECTED WITH TRANSDUCING BACTERIOPHAGE SP10
CARRIER STATE OF BACILLUS SUBTILIS INFECTED WITH TRANSDUCING BACTERIOPHAGE SP10
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DOI:
10.1016/0042-6822(65)90200-x
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发表时间:
1965-01-01
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影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
STRAUSS, B
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作者:
BOTT, K;STRAUSS, B
Bacteriophage SP10 may infect Bacillus subtilis to form a carrier system. The infected bacteria give rise to infected organisms after six or more successive single-colony isolations. About 60% of the spores derived from such an infected culture yield clones that produce phage, and such spores retain their ability to produce phage even after treatment with antiserum and heating at 80[degree]. Four hours'' incubation of carrier spores in nutrient broth yields cultures having more than 10 infective centers per bacterium. Cultivation of infected organisms in medium containing SP10 antiserum leads to loss of phage and loss of immunity to phage infection. DNA with a density characteristic of viral DNA can be detected in infected bacteria. Extracts of infected bacteria contain a phage-induced deoxyribonuclease activity which attacks both phage and bacterial DNA in vitro. The phage-bacterial complex is there- fore best described as a carrier state. The DNA of the phage and of B. subtilis are chemically different. Enzymatically prepared complementary virus RNA has no homology with bacterial DNA. The lack of homology of this transducing phage DNA with the DNA of its host and the failure to form a truly lysogenic relationship reinforce previous conclusions that transducing bacterial DNA is incorporated into the SP10 virus particle without any recombination between viral and bacterial DNA.