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. 1970 Oct;6(4):400–405. doi: 10.1128/jvi.6.4.400-405.1970

Control of the Replication Complex of Bacteriophage P22

Myron Levine 1, Maharani Chakravorty 1,1, Morley J Bronson 1
PMCID: PMC376136  PMID: 5497885

Abstract

A replication complex for the vegetative synthesis of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of the temperate phage P22 previously has been described. This complex is an association of parental phage DNA, most of the newly synthesized phage DNA made during pulses with 3H-thymidine, and other cell constituents, and has a sedimentation rate in neutral sucrose gradients of at least 1,000S. The complex is one of the intermediates, intermediate I, in the synthesis and maturation of phage P22 DNA after infection or induction. Evidence supporting the replicative nature of intermediate I is presented. Phage replication is repressed in lysogenic bacteria. On superinfection of P22 lysogens with nonvirulent phage, little association of the input phage DNA with a rapidly sedimenting fraction is demonstrable. However, after induction with ultraviolet light, the superinfecting parental phage DNA quickly acquires the rapid sedimentation rate characteristic of intermediate I; phage DNA synthesis follows; and progeny phages are produced. Infection with a virulent mutant of P22 produces progeny phages in lysogens. Its DNA associates with intermediate I. In mixed infection with the virulent phage, replication of nonvirulent phage P22 is still repressed, even though the virulent replicates normally. The nonvirulent input DNA does not associate with intermediate I. The repressor of the lysogenic cell prevents replication by interfering with the physical association of template material with intermediate I. A phage function is required for association of phage template with the replication machinery.

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