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As bacteriophages are dependent on the host for multiplication, their infection cycle is expected to be influenced by the host’s physiological state. To elucidate how and which steps of the bacteriophage infection cycle are influenced by changes in the physiological state of the host, we quantitatively compared the infection cycle of lytic RNA bacteriophage Qβ in Escherichia coli cultured in rich and minimal media. The adsorption rate constants in both media were almost the same. A difference of 15 min in the latent period and an approximately twofold increase in the rate of phage release were observed, although approximately 105 molecules of coat proteins, equivalent to approximately 600–1000 phage particles, accumulated in an infected cell prior to burst. Addition of Mg2+ to minimal medium markedly affected the Qβ infection cycle, and these results suggest that Mg2+ is required for the stages of the infectious cycle after adsorption.
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We are grateful to Dr. Tetsuya Yomo (Osaka University) for critical comments and Dr. Koji Tsukada (Osaka University) for valuable discussions and providing plasmid DNA. We thank Dr. Kotaro Mori (Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd.) for careful reading of this manuscript, and Dr. Takahiro Toba and the members of RNA Research Center (Hirosaki University) for their cooperation. This work was supported in part by MEXT KAKENHI (21770255 and 23570268, to AK), Inamori Foundation (to AK), Kato Memorial Bioscience Foundation (to AK), Hirosaki University Grant for Exploratory Research by Young Scientists (to AK), Grant for Priority Research Designated by the President of Hirosaki University, Grant for Hirosaki University Institutional Research.
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T. Inomata and H. Kimura contributed equally to this study.
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Inomata, T., Kimura, H., Hayasaka, H. et al. Quantitative comparison of the RNA bacteriophage Qβ infection cycle in rich and minimal media. Arch Virol 157, 2163–2169 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00705-012-1419-3
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