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== Morphology == | == Morphology == | ||
The λ phage has an icosahedral head about 50 nm in diameter, and a flexible tail about 150nm long.<ref name= | The λ phage has an icosahedral head about 50 nm in diameter, and a flexible tail about 150nm long.<ref name='LIB:Lambda_II'/> | ||
== Genome Organization == | == Genome Organization == | ||
Revision as of 17:40, 2 August 2011
Bacteriophage λ is the archetype of the lambdoid, or lambda-like phage, a subclass of the siphoviridae. λ is a temperate phage.
Morphology
The λ phage has an icosahedral head about 50 nm in diameter, and a flexible tail about 150nm long.[1]
Genome Organization
Life cycle
Lytic cycle
Adsorbtion and Injection
Early gene expression
Middle gene expression
DNA replication
Late gene expression
Packaging
Lysis
Lysogenic state
Lysis-Lysogeny switch
Prophage induction
See also
- Enterobacteriophage lambda at the NCBI taxonomy browser
- wikipedia: Lambda_phage
- ICTVdb entry
- Siphoviridae at MicrobeWiki
- Phage lambda on UniProt
References
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- ↑ Edited by Roger W. Hendrix, Jeffrey W. Roberts, Franklin W. Stahl and Robert A. Weisberg (1983) Lambda II (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY)