Acridine sensitivity of bacteriophage T2: a virus gene affecting cell permeability.
Acridine sensitivity of bacteriophage T2: a virus gene affecting cell permeability.
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噬菌体 T2 的吖啶敏感性:影响细胞通透性的病毒基因。
DOI:
10.1016/0022-2836(67)90190-8
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发表时间:
1967
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
S. Silver
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作者:
S. Silver
Studies on the uptake of acridine dyes byEscherichia colicells infected with bacteriophage T2 show a correlation between the potency of the dye as an inhibitor of bacteriophage multiplication and the amount of dye absorbed by the phage-infected cells. About one-third as much proflavine as purified acriflavine is taken up by the phage-infected cells. Still smaller amounts of other acridine dyes such as 9-aminoacridine and quinacrine are absorbed. The specificity of dye uptake is not due to selective permeability (as shown by experiments in which the permeability barriers of the cells are destroyed by heat or toluene) but rather to the selective absorption of the dyes by cellular binding substrates.The uptake of acriflavine is controlled by the viral genepr, studied by Hessler (1963). The process ofbecoming permeablerequires energy and protein synthesis during the first few minutes following phage infection, but the acriflavine need not be present during this period. After early protein synthesis, the process ofdye uptakecan proceed unaffected by energy poisons such as cyanide and iodoacetate. This suggests that the uptake of dye is notviaa phage-induced acridine pump but is passive. The possibility that an acriflavine-binding substrate controlled by a phage gene is produced by the early protein synthesis is argued against by experiments with toluene which show that the dye-binding capacity of the cell is not greatly affected by phage infection. Theprgene appears to alter the permeability of the cell membrane to the dyes.