Abstract
The amount of phage-specific protein in T2-infected bacteria growing in a medium containing radiosulfur, S35, has been studied by measuring the radioactivity in specific antiphage serum precipitates of lysates. In the course of normal infection, non-infective phage antigen has been found to make its first intracellular appearance shortly before the end of the eclipse period, in agreement with the findings of Maaløe and Symonds with phage T4. No such phage antigen is produced either in bacteria infected with UV-inactivated T2 or in T2-infected bacteria whose survival as an infective center has been destroyed by UV irradiation during the early stages of the eclipse period. If the infected bacteria are UV-irradiated only at later stages of the eclipse period however, then phage antigenic protein continues to be synthesized in those infected cells in which DNA synthesis and, a fortiori, production of infective progeny have been almost completely suppressed. It is concluded from these results that once the mechanism for formation of phage-specific protein has been established within the infected cell under the influence of the parental DNA, synthesis of phage-specific protein can continue independently of the synthesis of phage DNA. The possibility that the phage DNA controls the specificity of the phage protein indirectly through substances other than DNA is discussed.
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