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The kinetics of the requirement for X gene product in bacteriophage P22

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The kinetic study of the requirement for X gene product showed that the average burst size of the P22 phage depended on the length of the permissive interval in which the X function was expressed. Results of the temperature shift experiments with the clear plaque recombinants tsX c 52 and ts 25.1 c 52 gave a complicated pattern of the phage yield response.

It is concluded that X gene product, besides the control function in the initiation of the phage development, is involved directly or indirectly in the control of late functions and is required throughout the entire period of the phage development.

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  1. Institute of Biophysics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Brno

    Milan Bezděk & Jiří Soška

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Bezděk, M., Soška, J. The kinetics of the requirement for X gene product in bacteriophage P22. Molec. Gen. Genet. 125, 189–196 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00268871

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