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The Inability of T-even Phages to Produce Heat-stable Density Mutants and its Bearing on Chromosome Maturation No Access

Abstract

Heat stable () mutants have been isolated from phages T5 (Rubenstein, 1968), T1, T3, T7 (Ritchie & Malcolm, 1970) and λ (Parkinson & Huskey, 1971). In addition to their increased resistance to heat inactivation the mutant phage particles also have a lower buoyant density and, with the possible exception of T1, contain less DNA than their respective wild-types. All these phages have DNA molecules with non-permuted base sequences (Olligs, 1967; Thomas & MacHattie, 1967) which have been suggested to arise from intracellular concatenated DNA forms (found with T5, T7 and λ) by a sequence specific cutting mechanism which recognizes sites marking the ends of mature DNA molecules (Thomas, Kelly & Rhoades, 1968). Therefore the deletion of non-essential DNA sequences would produce viable phage particles with less DNA than wild-type; this would reduce the buoyant density and apparently also increases the heat stability.

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The Inability of T-even Phages to Produce Heat-stable Density Mutants and its Bearing on Chromosome Maturation
J. Gen. Virol. 16, 91 (1972); https://doi.org/10.1099/0022-1317-16-1-91
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