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. 1971 May;7(5):646–650. doi: 10.1128/jvi.7.5.646-650.1971

Transfection of Escherichia coli Spheroplasts I. General Facilitation of Double-Stranded Deoxyribonucleic Acid Infectivity by Protamine Sulfate

Rolf Benzinger 1, Ingrid Kleber 1, Robert Huskey 1
PMCID: PMC356175  PMID: 4997550

Abstract

The addition of 25 μg of protamine sulfate per ml to lysozyme-ethylenediamine-tetraacetic acid spheroplasts of Escherichia coli stimulates transfection not only for T1 phage deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA; Hotz and Mauser, 1969) but also for the following phage DNA species: lambda, 10,000-fold to an efficiency of 10−3 infective centers per DNA molecule; φX174 replicative form, 300-fold to an efficiency of 5 × 10−2; fd replicative form, 300-fold to 10−6; T7, 300-fold to 3 × 10−7. Three native phage DNA species were not infective at all in the absence of protamine sulfate but were infective in the presence of protamine sulfate with the following efficiencies: T4, 10−5; T5, 3 × 10−6; and P22, 3 × 10−9. The effect of protamine sulfate is specific for double-stranded DNA. The application of infectivity assays to the study of phage DNA replication, recombination, prophage integration, prophage excision, and interspecies transfection are discussed.

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