The book of Lambda does not tell us that naturally occurring lysogens of Escherichia coli are likely to be resistant as well as immune.

ABSTRACT: The most significant difference between bacteriophages functionally and ecologically is whether they are purely lytic (virulent) or temperate. Virulent phages can only be transmitted horizontally by infection, most commonly with the death of their hosts. Temperate phages can also be transmitted horizontally, but upon infection of susceptible bacteria, their genomes can be incorporated into that of their host's as a prophage and be transmitted vertically in the course of cell division by their lysogenic hosts. From what we know from studies with the temperate phage Lambda and other temperate phages, in laboratory culture, lysogenic bacteria are protected from killing by the phage coded for by their prophage by immunity; where upon infecting lysogens, the free temperate phage coded by their

SUBMITTER: Berryhill BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10089163 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature