Genetic Analysis: An Integrated Approach (3rd Edition)
Genetic Analysis: An Integrated Approach (3rd Edition)
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Author: Mark F. Sanders, John L. Bowman
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 12, Problem 13P

Describe the lytic and lysogenic life cycles of λ bacteriophage. What roles do λ repressor and Cro protein play in controlling transcription from P R and P RM , and how are these roles linked to lysis and lysogeny?

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Certain environmental conditions such as exposure to UV light areknown to activate lysogenic λ prophages and cause them to progressinto the lytic cycle. UV light initially causes the repressor protein to be proteolytically degraded. Make a flow diagram showing the subsequent events that lead to the lytic cycle. (Note: The xis gene codes for an enzyme that is necessary to excise the λ prophage from the E. coli chromosome. The enzyme integrase is also necessary for this excision.)
Suppose you had a bacteriophage λ in which the gene encoding the cro protein had been mutated, so that it had an unusually high affinity for pL - in this phage the first promoter repressed by cro would be pL, not pRM. What effect, if any, would this mutation, and the consequent rapid repression of transcription from pL, have on the outcome of a cell being infected by this mutant bacteriophage? Explain why you would predict that outcome of aninfection by this mutant phage.
Bacteriophage λ, after infecting a cell, can integrateinto the chromosome of the cell if the repressor protein, cI, binds to and shuts down phage transcriptionimmediately. (A strain containing a bacteriophageDNA integrated into the chromosome is called a lysogen.) The alternative fate is the production of manymore viruses and lysis of the cell. In a mating, a donor strain that is a lysogen was crossed with a lysogenic recipient cell, and no phages were produced.However, when the lysogen donor strain transferredits DNA to a nonlysogenic recipient cell, the recipientcell burst, releasing a new generation of phages. a. Why did the mating with a nonlysogenic recipientresult in phage growth and release, but the infectionof a lysogenic recipient did not?

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