Defective Bacteriophage PBSH in Bacillus subtilis: II. Intracellular Development of the Induced Prophage
AUTOR(ES)
Haas, Martin
RESUMO
Treatment of Bacillus subtilis strain 168 with mitomycin C caused induction of a defective prophage, PBSH. During induction, extensive deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesis took place. Concurrently, a change in marker frequency of the bacterial DNA was noticed. The frequency of only one marker, ade-16, the marker closest to the origin of the bacterial chromosome, was enhanced manyfold. DNA from whole phage particles transformed all bacterial markers at a frequency equal to that of DNA in the noninduced culture, except ade-16, the frequency of which was enhanced 30 to 100 times. Analysis of a double isotope experiment demonstrated that 14% of the phage DNA was derived from preinduction bacterial DNA. The other 86% of DNA in phage particles was DNA replicated after induction. Density label experiments with 5-bromodeoxyuridine showed that postinduction DNA synthesis took place preferentially at the origin region of the bacterial chromosome. Measurement of the molecular weight of DNA replicated after induction clearly showed that postinduction DNA replication is chromosomal. No evidence for prophage detachment and autonomous phage DNA replication was found. The data indicated that, after mitomycin C action, the bacterial chromosome under-went multiple reinitiation at the origin, while normal sequential DNA replication was stopped. The pool of replicated bacterial DNA was fragmented randomly. This DNA was packaged into PBSH particles which were released after cell lysis.
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