Файл:Nbt0104-31-F1.jpg

Summary

The lytic cycle of a Bacteriophage

(1) Phage attaches to a specific host bacterium and (2) injects its DNA, (3) disrupting the bacterial genome and killing the bacterium, and (4) taking over the bacterial DNA and protein synthesis machinery to make phage parts. (5) The process culminates with the assembly of new phage, and (6) the lysis of the bacterial cell wall to release a hundred new copies of the input phage into the environment. (Graphic courtesy of GangaGen, Bangalore, India; Phage image courtesy of Elizabeth Cutter, Evergreen State University, Olympia, WA, USA)

Copyright status

Nature Publishing Group grants permission for authors, readers and third parties to reproduce material from its journals and online products as part of another publication or entitiy. This includes, for example, the use of a figure in a presentation, the posting of an abstract on a web site, or the reproduction of a full article within another journal.

http://www.nature.com/reprints/index.html

Source

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v22/n1/full/nbt0104-31.html