Abstract
A group of temperature-sensitive mutants of φX174 has been isolated which can go through a single, normal one-step growth cycle at 40 C but fail to form plaques at this temperature. Such mutants fail to initiate a second cycle at 40 C; however they can gain the capacity to infect at 40 C, upon incubation for 10 min in broth at 30 C. In regaining the ability to infect, the phage appear to undergo a temperature-dependent conformational alteration. The inverse process, a reversible loss of ability to infect at 40 C, is observed when such phage produced at 30 C are incubated for 2 hr at 40 C. The defect in initiation of a second cycle of infection appears to be in the injection of viral deoxyribonucleic acid. A two-step complementation test has been used to identify the cistron coding for the affected function. Such mutants are also unusually sensitive to an irreversible thermal inactivation when incubated at 40 C.
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