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Prokaryotes as host Subcellular structure without metabolic machinery Double stranded DNA, single stranded DNA, RNA Virulent phage vs. template phage
MS2
T2
Fd, M13
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Historical context
A century ago, Hankin (1896) reported that the waters of the Ganges and Jumna rivers in India had marked antibacterial action (against Vibrio cholerae, restrict epidemic) which could pass through a very fine porcelain filter; this activity was destroyed by boiling. Edward Twort (1915) and Felix d'Herelle (1917) independently reported isolating filterable entities capable of destroying bacterial cultures and of producing small cleared areas on bacterial lawns. It was F d'Herelle, a Canadian working at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, who gave them the name "bacteriophages"-- using the suffix phage (1922).
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Glossary
pfu: plaque forming unit Title: define pfu in a phage suspension moi: multiplicity of infection, the ration of phage particles to bacteria eop: efficiency of plating, the ration of the plaque titer to the number of phage particles Prophage: state of phage co-existing with host Lysogenic bacteria: term of bacteria carrying prophage Phage conversion: phenotype change in lysogenic bacteria
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plaque
Plaques are clear zones formed in a lawn of cells due to lysis by phage. At a low multiplicity of infection (MOI) a cell is infected with a single phage and lysed, releasing progeny phage which can diffuse to neighboring cells and infect them, lysing these cells then infecting the neighboring cells and lysing them, etc, It ultimately results in a circular area of cell lysis in a turbid lawn of cells. Dynamic process
gal+
gal-
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Ellis, E. L. and M. Delbrck (1939). The Growth of Bacteriophage. J. Gen. Physiol. 22:365-384.
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3 1 4
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0 min. Attachment of T2 to a susceptible E. coli cell 1 min. Inject DNA into cell 1-7 min. Transcribe and translate early genes
block bacterial DNA synthesis and degrade host chromosomal DNA block transcription of host mRNAs block translation of host proteins small amounts of early proteins produced (catalytic functions) transcription from single phage genome
7-15 min. Replication of phage DNA 10-20 min. Translation of phage late proteins (structural)
transcribed from new phage DNA (many copies of template) need large amounts of these proteins to build new virions
18-25 min. Assembly of new phage particles (end of eclipse period) 25 min. Lysis of host cell and release of progeny (end of latent period)
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Infection processes
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Attachment of virion to cell Entry of viral nucleic acid into host cell (with or without other virion components) Early viral proteins synthesized (required for genome replication) Genome replication Late proteins synthesized (capsid proteins) Assembly of progeny virions Release of infectious progeny virions
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A random collision, protein/protein interaction Affected by Ca++, Mg++, or tryptonphanetc. Receptor specific (outer membrane protein lamB for lambda; sex pili for Qb)
DNA is the major material entering bacterial Lysozme like activity, core boring through the cell wall
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Early, in 5 min
Middle, in 10 min
Late In 25 min
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XP10
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Assembly of phage
Can it happen automatically?
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Lysogenic cycle
Lysogenic Cycle: Lambda as an example
lambda integrase and lambda repressor cI synthesized due to activation of the transcription of their genes by cII. cI repressor turns off phage transcription integrase catalyzes integration of lambda DNA into bacterial chromosome via short sites of homology (site-specific recombination) ---- prophage
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Return to be a killer
Prophage:
Bacterium is now immune to infection by another phage, because repressor continuously produced ----- new phage DNA can be injected into cell and is circularized but is not transcribed or replicated.
Prophage can be excised when host response system to potentially lethal situations:
if host DNA damaged one reaction by host cell is to activate a protease protease also cleaves repressor Phage DNA now transcibed including a gene for an enzyme that cuts prophage DNA from bacterial chromosome
Application of phages
Model system of molecular biology Cloning and expression Phage display system Phage typing Phage therapy:
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