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. 1971 Nov;8(5):613–618. doi: 10.1128/jvi.8.5.613-618.1971

Control of Gene Function in Bacteriophage T4

III. Preventing the Shutoff of Early Enzyme Synthesis

Walter Sauerbier 1,2, Manfred Schweiger 1,2, Peter Herrlich 1,2
PMCID: PMC376238  PMID: 4943682

Abstract

Synthesis of early T4 protein, which is normally shut off at 10 min after infection, continues until lysis when host cells have been preinfected with T3 sam+. In host cells preinfected with T3 sam−, synthesis of early enzymes is shut off as normal. Thus, S-adenosylmethionine is required for the turnoff of early T4 functions (at least when host cells have been preinfected with T3).

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