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. 1982 Dec;152(3):1091–1095. doi: 10.1128/jb.152.3.1091-1095.1982

A second function of the S gene of bacteriophage lambda.

D B Wilson, A Okabe
PMCID: PMC221613  PMID: 6216243

Abstract

Infection of Escherichia coli by bacteriophage lambda caused an immediate inhibition of uptake by members of all three classes of E. coli active transport systems and made the inner membrane permeable to sucrose and glycine; however, infection stimulated alpha-methyl glucoside uptake. Phage infection caused a dramatic drop in the ATP pool of the cell, but the membrane did not become permeable to nucleotides. Infection by only one phage per cell was sufficient to cause transport inhibition. However, adsorption of phage to the lambda receptor did not cause transport inhibition; DNA injection was required. The inhibition of transport caused by lambda phage infection was transient, and by 20 min after infection, transport had returned to its initial level. The recovery of transport activity appeared to require a lambda structural protein with a molecular weight of 5,500. This protein was present in wild-type phage and at a reduced level in S7 mutant phage but was missing in S2 and S4 mutant phage. Cells infected with S7 phage had a partial recovery of active transport, whereas cells infected with S2 or S4 phage did not recover active transport. Neither the inhibition of transport caused by phage infection nor its recovery were affected by the protein synthesis inhibitors chloramphenicol and rifampin.

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