Affiliation:
1. Department of Biochemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Abstract
The effect of thymine deprivation on the integrity of phage λ, sex factor, and chromosomal deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in
Escherichia coli
CR34 (λ
ind
−
) was examined by sedimenting cell lysates through alkaline sucrose gradients. Both sex factor and chromosomal DNAs showed evidence of being degraded during the starvation period. In contrast, no loss of closed circular λ DNA was observed.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
Cited by
6 articles.
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