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Lysogens were isolated after confluent lysis of the blue-green algaNostoc muscorum by N-1 virus and characterised. The spontaneous liberation of active virus particles in lysogens was not lost after treating them with viricidal concentration of EDTA and virus titre obtained in their cultures was >5×103 PFU/ml. The virus adsorbed on the lysogens with a slower rate than on parent alga, although it followed the pattern of a first order reaction. The heat treatment (45°C for 14h) of the lysogens failed to induce lysis, whereas mitomycin C (1–2 μg/ml) was effective in inducing lysis.
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Abbreviations
- EDTA:
-
ethylene diamine tetra-acetic acid
- IM:
-
input multiplicity
- k :
-
adsorption rate constant
- k v :
-
specific constant for virus production
- MC:
-
mitomycin C
- PFU:
-
plaqueforming units
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Padhy, R.N., Singh, P.K. Lysogeny in the blue-green algaNostoc muscorum . Arch. Microbiol. 117, 265–268 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00738545
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