lytic cycle

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lytic cycle

the life cycle of a BACTERIOPHAGE in which many new phages are reproduced and the host bacterial cell undergoes LYSIS, the phages entering new bacterial hosts.

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1]) since September to November 2004 and April 2005, the entrance of allochthonous substrates by run-off or river discharges might stimulate the induction of lytic cycle in lysogenic prokaryotes or favor the exportation of certain allochthonous populations from land (e.

Spatial and temporal dynamics of virioplankton in a high-mountain tropical reservoir, El Neusa (Cundinamarca, Colombia)

In order to characterize the cytokine responses against EBV in SLE patients and compare them to HCs, 14 cytokines secreted upon stimulation with the latent state EBNA1 and the lytic cycle EBV-EA/D were quantified.

Impaired Cytokine Responses to Epstein-Barr Virus Antigens in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients

The prophage lytic cycle can be induced with DNA damaging agents (23); therefore, to address whether the toxin carried in [stx.

Clinical isolates of Shiga toxin 1a--producing Shigella flexneri with an epidemiological link to recent travel to Hispaniola

1) at basal conditions, after lytic cycle enhancement, and after treatment by the [alpha]-amanitin RNA polymerase transcription inhibitor (16-18).

Quantification of gp350/220 Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) mRNA by real-time reverse transcription-PCR in EBV-associated diseases

Induction of HIV-1 Replication In Vitro Previous studies from our laboratory have demonstrated induction of HHV-8 lytic cycle replication following coculture of BCBL-1 cells with HIV-l-infected CD4.

Induction of Human Immunodeficiency Virus 1 Replication by Human Herpesvirus 8

This phylogeny experienced only two substitutions during the 30 lytic cycles that compose its internal branch, compared with seven parallel evolutionary events between its two longest branches.

Best-fit maximum-likelihood models for phylogenetic inference: empirical tests with known phylogenies

The tumor cell is destroyed and the newly created viruses spread to neighboring cancer cells, repeating the same lytic cycle.

Geron Reports On Pre-Clinical Studies for Three Product Candidates At 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research

The viral lytic cycle was induced by incubating BCBL-1 cells with 20 ng/mL of 12-Otetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) (Sigma, St.

Variations in human herpesvirus type 8 seroprevalence in Native Americans, South America

For example, the lysogenic state of phage lambda is maintained by the cI repressor gene, which binds to control regions for the lytic cycle, shutting down those regions.