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Five temperate phages were isolated from strain 4042B of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai. The phages, which were heteroimmune, could also be distinguished by their host ranges, plaque and particle morphologies, serological specificities, and locations of restriction endonuclease cleavage sites on their chromosomes. Besides maintaining a stable lysogenic relationship with the 4042B host strain, each phage formed a stable lysogen with Bacillus cereus.
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PMID:Five unique temperate phages from a polylysogenic strain of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai. 322 Nov 99

Twenty plaque-purified strains of Heliothis zea S-type nuclear polyhedrosis virus (HzSNPV) were characterized based upon restriction endonuclease digests of viral DNAs, structural protein profiles, and larval melanization response. Each of the 20 strains had a unique genotype. Genomic heterogeneity between strains was localized to 4 regions of the HzSNPV genome. Differences in protein profiles of occluded virus were noted for each strain relative to the wild-type isolate. The strains were separated into 3 groups based upon differences in relative virulence and rate of larval melanization upon death. There was no correlation between differences in pathology and specific alterations in either genotype or structural proteins. The genotype of strain HzS-15 was extensively characterized. Physical maps were constructed for the HzS-15 strain and all of the plaque-purified strains.
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PMID:Characterization of genotypic and phenotypic variation in plaque-purified strains of HzSNPV Elkar isolate. 332 47

HIVYU-6 and HIVYU-7 were isolated from an acquired immune deficiency syndrome patient (MK) and his asymptomatic sexual partner (MM), respectively. YU-6 readily infected not only peripheral lymphocytes from normal individuals but also human T-cell lines such as H9, HUT-78, MOLT-4 and MT-4; YU-7, on the other hand, could not infect H9 and MT-4 cells. Furthermore, although autologous serum failed to neutralize YU-6, it was neutralized by the heterologous serum from the partner. Restriction endonuclease analysis of YU-6 demonstrated that it was a mixture of viruses. We have isolated two clones from YU-6 (YU-6-a and YU-6-b) by a plaque assay method and showed that YU-6-a had one more KpnI site than YU-6-b. It was also evident that YU-7 derived from YU-6-a, but had already shifted genetically from YU-6-a. Transmission of human immunodeficiency virus through heterosexual contact and a possible genetic shift of YU-6-a, b and YU-7 from a common progenitor virus in vivo is discussed.
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PMID:Transmission and genetic shift of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in vivo. 350 21

Phage 18, a noninducible coliphage, is quite unstable and therefore difficult to study. Newly developed very gentle lysis and mounting techniques yielded isolated virions for examination by electron microscopy. The phage has a contractile tail with a length of 130 nm and an isometric head with a capsid diameter of 50 nm. Phage 18 is similar in morphology to phage P2 but is heteroimmune to it. DNA extracted from a clear-plaque mutant of phage 18 was subjected to BamHI restriction endonuclease digestion and was found to be easily distinguishable from the published restriction patterns for P2, phage 299, or phage 186 DNA. The genome size was calculated to be 33.5 kb. Using the DNA melting point, phage 18 DNA (G+C) content was determined to be 55.0% and its buoyant density was determined to be 1.715.
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PMID:Characterization of phage 18, an unstable coliphage. 354 74

A bacterial restriction endonuclease has been used to produce specific fragments of SV40 DNA. Digestion of DNA from plaque-purified stocks of SV40 with the restriction endonuclease from Hemophilus influenzae gave 11 fragments resolvable by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, eight of which were equimolar with the original DNA. The fragments ranged from about 6.5 x 10(5) to 7.4 x 10(4) daltons, as determined by electron microscopy, DNA content, or electrophoretic mobility.
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PMID:Specific cleavage of simian virus 40 DNA by restriction endonuclease of Hemophilus influenzae. 1584 Jul 23

Limited digestion of simian virus 40 (SV40) DNA from both small- and large- plaque strains with the restriction endonuclease Z from Haemophilus aegyptius yielded 10 specific fragments. The number of nucleotide pairs for each fragment, determined by co-electrophoresis with phiX174 RF fragments produced by endonuclease Z, ranges from 2,050 to 80. The difference in the pattern between the large- and small-plaque strains is the disappearance of one fragment containing approximately 255 nucleotide pairs and the appearance of a new fragment with 145 nucleotide pairs. This finding can be explained either by deletions or insertions totaling 110 nucleotide pairs. Complementary RNA synthesized in vitro from the adeno-SV40 hybrid virus, strain ND-1, hybridized preferentially to four of the fragments of SV40 DNA.
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PMID:Analysis of simian virus 40 DNA with the restriction enzyme of Haemophilus aegyptius, endonuclease Z. 434 91

A preparation of serially passaged simian virus 40 (SV40) DNA, in which at least 66% of the molecules contain covalently linked cellular DNA sequences, was digested to completion with the Hemophilus influenzae restriction endonuclease. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of the digest showed that the majority of the cleavage products migrated as nine classes of fragments, each class defined by a particular molecular weight. These classes of fragments differ in molecular weight from the fragments produced by the action of the same enzyme on plaque-purified virus DNA. Three classes of fragments were present in less than equimolar amounts relative to the original DNA. The remaining six classes of fragments each contain more than one fragment per original DNA molecule. DNA-DNA hybridization analysis (using the filter method) of the isolated cleavage products demonstrated the presence of highly reiterated cell DNA sequences in two of the nine classes of fragments. A third class of fragments hybridized with high efficiency only to serially passaged SV40 DNA; the level of hybridization to plaque-purified virus DNA was low and there was essentially no hybridization with cell DNA immobilized on filters. It is suggested that this class of fragments contains unique host sequences. It was estimated that at least 27% of the sequences in the substituted SV40 DNA molecules studied are host sequences. The majority of these are probably of the nonreiterated type.
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PMID:Acquisition of sequences homologous to host DNA by closed circular simian virus 40 DNA. 3. Host sequences. 435 51

Human adenovirus type 2 (Ad2) grows poorly in monkey cells, although this defect can be overcome by co-infection with simian virus 40 (SV40). The nondefective Ad2-SV40 hybrid virus, Ad2(+)ND1, replicates efficiently in both human and African green monkey kidney cells, presumably due to the insertion of SV40 sequences into the Ad2 DNA. Several mutants of Ad2(+)ND1 have been isolated that grow and plaque poorly in monkey cells, although they retain the ability to replicate and plaque efficiently in HeLa cells. One of these mutants (H39) has been examined in detail. Studies comparing the DNA of the mutant with Ad2(+)ND1 either by the cleavage patterns produced by Escherichia coli R.RI restriction endonuclease digestion or by heteroduplexing reveal no differences. The pattern of protein synthesis of Ad2(+)ND1 and H39 in monkey cells is quite different with the mutant resembling Ad2, which is defective in the synthesis of late proteins. However, in human cells, the proteins synthesized by H39 and the parent Ad2(+)ND1 are very similar. The production of SV40 U antigen in H39-infected cells is different from that in Ad2(+)ND1-infected cells. Finally, the growth of H39 in monkey cells can be complemented by SV40.
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PMID:Conditional lethal mutants of adenovirus 2-simian virus 40 hybrids. I. Host range mutants of Ad2+ND1. 436 98

In a recent publication Shames et al. (1973) concluded that the UV-specific T4 endonuclease (a repair enzyme coded for by the gene v of wild-type T4) is a component of extracellular phage, which is injected into the host cell and can perform an early repair step without requiring gene expression. This notion is, however, not supported by results presented in this paper. Lysates obtained from mixed multiple infection of Escherichia coli cells with T4v(1) (-) and T4v(+) (or T4v(2) (-) and T4v(+)) failed to show the expected phenotypic mixing, i.e., incorporation of UV endonuclease into capsids of v(-) phages resulting in recognizable repair. The fraction of v(+) and v(-) particles in such lysates was determined by single-plaque analysis before and after irradiation with a UV dose at which virtually all survivors are particles having undergone repair. Even though our mixed infection conditions were most favorable for the possible occurrence of phenotypic mixing, none out of several hundred individual plaques from survivors were found to be genotypically v(-), whereas 30 were expected in the case that phenotypically mixed v(-) particles were repaired like T4v(+). Our failure to observe phenotypic mixing suggests that the data by Shames et al. reflect intracellular synthesis of endonuclease after phage infection.
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PMID:Evidence against phenotypic mixing between bacteriophage T4 wild type and T4v minus. 460 54

Several Streptomyces species that produce restriction endonucleases were characterized for their ability to propagate 10 different broad host range bacteriophages. Each species displayed a different pattern of plaque formation. A restrictionless mutant of S. albus G allowed plaque formation by all 10 phages, whereas the wild-type strain showed plaques with only 2 phages. DNA isolated from three of the phages was analyzed for the presence of restriction sites for Streptomyces species-encoded enzymes, and a very strong correlation was established between the failure to form plaques on Streptomyces species that produced particular restriction enzymes and the presence of the corresponding restriction sites in the phage DNA. Also, the phages that lacked restriction sites in their DNA generally formed plaques on the corresponding restriction endonuclease-producing hosts at high efficiency. The DNAs from the three phages analyzed also generally contained either many or no restriction sites for the Streptomyces species-produced enzymes, suggesting a strong evolutionary trend to either eliminate all or tolerate many restriction sites. The data indicate that restriction plays a major role in host range determination for Streptomyces phages. Analysis of bacteriophage host ranges of many other uncharacterized Streptomyces hosts has identified four relatively nonrestricting hosts, at least two of which may be suitable hosts for gene cloning. The data also suggest that several restriction systems remain to be identified in the genus Streptomyces.
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PMID:Restriction of bacteriophage plaque formation in Streptomyces spp. 608 74


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