Susceptibility of Different Coliphage Genomes to Host-controlled Variation (original) (raw)

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Twenty-eight coliphages were studied for their susceptibility to four systems of host control variation in Escherichia coli. Both temperate and virulent phages were studied, including phages with ribonucleic acid, double- and single-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and glucosylated DNA. The systems examined were E. coli C-K, K-B, B-K, and K-K(P1). The C-K, K-B, and B-K systems affected temperate phages and nonlysogenizing mutants derived from temperate phages. In general, these systems did not restrict virulent phages. Phage 21e, a variant of phage 21, lost the ability to undergo restriction in the C-K and B-K systems, but retained susceptibility to the K-B and K-K(P1) systems. This suggests that the genetic site(s) on the phage, as well as in the host, determines susceptibility to host-controlled variation. Both temperate and dependent virulent phages were susceptible to the host control system resulting from the presence of prophage P1. The autonomous and small virulents were not susceptible. In a given system, the various susceptible phages differed widely in their efficiency of plating on the restricting host. If the few infections that occur arise in rare special cells, then different populations of special cells are available to different phage species. For most phage types, when a susceptible phage infected a nonrestricting host, the progeny showed the specificity appropriate to that host. Behavior of T3 was exceptional, however. When T3 obtained from E. coli K infected E. coli C or B, some of the progeny phages retained K host specificity, whereas others acquired the specificity of the new host.

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