Discriminative effect of rifampin of RNA replication of various RNA bacteriophages.
AUTOR(ES)
Engelberg, H
RESUMO
Rifampin interferes exclusively with RNA replication in vivo of the group I phages MS2, f2, and R17, whereas QbetaRNA replication is unaffected by the drug. In addition, rifampin has a discriminative effect of group I phage RNA replication. In the experimental system employed by us the antibiotic differentially interferes with the synthesis of minus RNA strands in f2, whereas it has almost no effect on the synthesis of progeny plus strands. In MS2, the drug differentially arrests the synthesis of progeny plus strands and almost fails to affect the synthesis of minus RNA strands. In R17 both steps of its RNA replication are affected by rifampin, although each step is only partially (approximately 50%) inhibited. The relation of the present results to the possible role of bacterial proteins and tertiary structure of phage RNA in the process of template recognition is discussed.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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