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Phenol extracted deoxyribonucleic acid of temperate bacteriophage P2 infects E. coli strains C and K 12 with about equal efficiency. Infection occurs only if the bacteria exposed to P2 DNA are simultaneously infected with a related helper phage. Deoxyribonuclease completely destroys the infectivity of the DNA extract. The kinetics of the development of competence and the dependence of the number of infectious units on the multiplicity of infection of helper phage are compared with those of the λ DNA system. The molecular weight of P2 DNA was determined by sedimentation in a sucrose density gradient to be 2.20±0.2x107.
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Mandel, M. Infectivity of phage P2 DNA in presence of helper phage. Molec. Gen. Genetics 99, 88–96 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00306461
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