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Stationary phase-like properties of the bacteriophage lambda Rex exclusion phenotype.
Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG - 1 Apr 2003
Slavcev R A, Hayes S
Abstract excerpt
The rex genes of bacteriophage lambda were found to protect lysogenic Escherichia coliK host cells against killing by phage T4 rII, when compared in parallel to isogenic Rex(-) lysogens and nonlysogens. This protective effect was abrogated upon mutation of the host stationary-phase sigma factor RpoS. Rex(+) lysogens infected by T4 rII contracted, formed aggregates and shed flagella, thus resembling cells entering...
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