Escherichia coli Mutants Permissive for T4 Bacteriophage with Deletion in e Gene (Phage Lysozyme)

AUTOR(ES)

Raj, C. V. Sundar

RESUMO

Escherichia coli mutants have been isolated that are permissive for the infection by T4 phage with deletion in the cistron for the phage lysozyme, the e gene. Some, but not all, of these mutants are simultaneously permissive for the infection by T4 phage defective in the t gene, the product of which has also been implicated in the release of progeny phages. Most of these mutants shared the following properties: temperature sensitivity in growth and cell division, increased sensitivity towards a number of unrelated antibiotics and colicins, and increased sensitivity towards anionic detergents (sodium dodecyl sulfate and sodium deoxycholate). The possible biochemical basis for these phenotypes is discussed.

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