| Influence of urethane and of hydrostatic pressure on the growth of bacteriophages T2, T5, T6, and T7. | |
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PMID: 14832436 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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In 0.5 per cent NaCl, nutrient broth at 35 degrees C., urethane in a concentration of 0.4 M stops the reproduction of Escherichia coli, strain B. On dilution with 20 volumes of sterile medium, growth is resumed at its former rate after a short lag. In the one-step growth of T2, 15, T6, or T7, in the same medium at the same temperature, 0.4 M urethane, when added at the time of infection, had no apparent effect on adsorption and caused no decrease in titer throughout the latent period of the control, but completely prevented a rise in titer. If diluted 1:20 with sterile medium prior to a certain critical time in the latent period, however, bacteriophage was liberated at the same time, and in the same amount as in the control. The initial stage of apparent insensitivity to the drug lasts from the time of infection until the approximate critical times of 7 minutes with T7, T2, or T6, or 13 minutes with T5. Under the conditions described, the normal latent periods were 14, 23, 30, and 44 minutes for T7, T2, T6, and T5, respectively. At the critical times referred to above, there begins a stage characterized by complete sensitivity, rather than complete insensitivity, to 0.4 M urethane, in the sense that no active phage is subsequently liberated in continued presence of the drug. The length of this completely sensitive stage, as judged by addition of the drug at successive intervals during the latent period, extends from approximately 7 until 9 minutes after infection with T7, 7 until 15 minutes with T2 or T6, or 13 until 25 minutes with T5. When the urethane is added late in this stage of T2, a decrease in initial titer takes place as judged by assays made 40 minutes after infection, the maximum effect occurring when the drug is added between 14 and 15 minutes after infection. When added subsequently to the completely sensitive stage of each type, i.e. subsequently to 9 minutes after infection with T7, 15 minutes with T2 or T6, or 25 minutes with T5, liberation of the bacteriophage takes place in presence of the drug, but the yield is reduced, the amount of reduction being greater the sooner it is added. The yield increases as addition of the drug is delayed, but it is measurably reduced when added late in the rise period. Macroscopic lysis with T7 is delayed by 0.4 M urethane, when present from the time of infection. The delay is less with increased multiplicities of infection. A similar delay occurs with T6r at a multiplicity of 4. The application of hydrostatic pressures of 7,000 to 9,000 p.s.i. early in the latent period, within 5 to 8 minutes after infection, prevents a yield in each of the four phage types, and if maintained for lengthy periods of time a reduction in initial titer occurs. If released at various times shortly after the latent period, a rise in the titer occurred after a certain interval whose length was characteristic of the phage type. The yield was less the longer the release of pressure was delayed. When the pressure was first applied late in the latent period, large amounts of phage were liberated either under pressure or explosively when pressure was released to make the assays. Hydrostatic pressure at 6,000 p.s.i. had little effect on the rate or amount of macroscopic clearing with T7 in relatively high multiplicity of infection, when applied at the start of lysis, but slowed the rate and reduced the amount of clearing when applied shortly after infection. |
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R A C FOSTER; F H JOHNSON |
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Title: The Journal of general physiology Volume: 34 ISSN: 0022-1295 ISO Abbreviation: J. Gen. Physiol. Publication Date: 1951 May |
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Created Date: 1951-12-01 Completed Date: 2004-02-15 Revised Date: 2010-06-22 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 2985110R Medline TA: J Gen Physiol Country: Not Available |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 529-50 Citation Subset: OM |
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Bacteriophages* Pressure* Urethane* |
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51-79-6/Urethane |
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Journal Information Journal ID (nlm-ta): J Gen Physiol ISSN: 0022-1295 ISSN: 1540-7748 Publisher: The Rockefeller University Press |
Article Information Download PDF  Copyright © Copyright, 1951, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research Received Day: 27 Month: 9 Year: 1950 Print publication date: Day: 20 Month: 5 Year: 1951 Volume: 34 Issue: 5 First Page: 529 Last Page: 550 ID: 2147259 PubMed Id: 14832436 |
| INFLUENCE OF URETHANE AND OF HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE ON THE GROWTH OF BACTERIOPHAGES T2, T5, T6, AND T7 | |
| Ruth A. C. Foster | |
| Frank H. Johnson | |
| From the Department of Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey |
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