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SUBMITTER: Brown S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9168506 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20220328 14
SignificanceSome viruses that infect bacteria, temperate bacteriophages, can confer immunity to infection by the same virus. Here we report <i>λ</i>-immune bacteria could protect <i>λ</i>-sensitive bacteria from killing by phage <i>λ</i> in mixed culture. The protection depended on the extent to which the immune bacteria were able to adsorb the phage. Reconciling modeling with experiment led to identifying a decline in protection as bacteria stopped growing. Adsorption of <i>λ</i> was compromise ...[more]