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Comparative Study
. 1988 Dec;62(12):4554-60.
doi: 10.1128/JVI.62.12.4554-4560.1988.

Novel segregation patterns of infecting-mutant genotypes in plate complementation tests among amber mutants of bacteriophage BF23

K Mizobuchi  1 , T Nagasu
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Comparative Study

Novel segregation patterns of infecting-mutant genotypes in plate complementation tests among amber mutants of bacteriophage BF23

K Mizobuchi et al. J Virol. 1988 Dec.

Abstract

Amber mutants of bacteriophage BF23 were classified into two functional groups, types I and II, by the yields of the infecting-mutant genotypes in plate complementation tests. Type I mutants produced their genotypes at levels more than 20% of the total progeny phages, and type II mutants did so at levels of less than 5%. Comparison of the results of plate complementation tests with those of extract complementation tests revealed that all the type I mutants were defective in the tail formation, while most type II mutants were defective in the formation of either mature heads (type IIa) or both mature heads and tails (type IIb). Since in extract complementation tests the activated phages are always of genotypes corresponding to mutations defective in only the tail formation, the plate complementation test is comparable with the extract complementation test when judged on the basis of the yield of the mutant genotypes. Of 29 complementation groups, 8 type I, 14 type IIa, and 5 type IIb mutants were identified. Previously, amber mutations of BF23 were mapped on four genetic segments. These segments were ordered in one linkage map by crosses between deletion and amber mutants.

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