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. 1971 Oct;8(4):455–468. doi: 10.1128/jvi.8.4.455-468.1971

Heat Induction of Prophage φ105 in Bacillus subtilis: Replication of the Bacterial and Bacteriophage Genomes

Richard W Armentrout 1, Lars Rutberg 1
PMCID: PMC376219  PMID: 5002012

Abstract

A temperature-inducible mutant of temperate Bacillus bacteriophage φ105 was isolated and used to lysogenize a thymine-requiring strain of Bacillus subtilis 168. Synthesis of phage and bacterial deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was studied by sucrose gradient centrifugation and density equilibrium centrifugation of DNA extracted from induced bacteria. The distribution of DNA in the gradients was measured by differential isotope and density labeling of DNA before and after induction and by measuring the biological activity of the DNA in genetic transformation, in rescue of phage markers, and in infectivity assays. At early times after induction, but after at least one round of replication, phage DNA remains associated with high-molecular-weight DNA, whereas, later in the infection, phage DNA is associated with material of decreasing molecular weight. Genetic linkage between phage and bacterial markers can be demonstrated in replicated DNA from induced cells. Prophage induction is shown to affect replication of the bacterial chromosome. The overall rate of replication of prelabeled bacterial DNA is identical in temperature-induced lysogenics and in “mock-induced” wild-type φ105 lysogenics. The rate of replication of the bacterial marker phe-1 (and also of nia-38), located close to the prophage in direction of the terminus of the bacterial chromosome, is increased in induced cells, however, relative to other bacterial markers tested. In temperature-inducible lysogenics, where the prophage also carries a ts mutation which blocks phage DNA synthesis, replication of both phage and bacterial DNA stops after about 50% of the phage DNA has replicated once. The results of these experiments suggest that the prophage is not initially excised in induced cells, but rather it is specifically replicated in situ together with adjacent parts of the bacterial chromosome.

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