lysogenization

Thân thiện

A scientist observes lysogenization occurring in a bacterial culture.

Definition

Noun: - The process by which a bacterium acquires a bacteriophage (phage) that becomes integrated into its genome: This is a specific biological process where a bacterial cell incorporates the genetic material of a virus into its own DNA. The integrated viral genome, called a prophage, is then replicated along with the bacterial genome.

Usage

• This term is used almost exclusively in microbiology, virology, and genetics to describe a key step in the lysogenic cycle of bacteriophages.
• It denotes the event of integration, not the subsequent state of being lysogenic (which is lysogeny).

Examples

• culture was confirmed by PCR analysis.*

Advanced Usage

• "Frequency of lysogenization": Refers to how often this integration event occurs under specific conditions.
  • The frequency of lysogenization increases under stressful environmental conditions for the host bacterium.

Variants and Related Words

• Lysogeny (noun): The state of a bacterium carrying a prophage within its genome.
• Lysogenic (adjective): Describing the cycle or a bacterium that harbors a prophage (e.g., a lysogenic bacterium, the lysogenic cycle).
• Lysogenize (verb): To cause or undergo lysogenization.
  • The temperate phage can lysogenize its host.

Synonyms

• Lysogenic conversion (This is a related but broader term that often includes the phenotypic changes in the host bacterium resulting from lysogenization).
• Phage integration (A more general descriptive term).

Antonyms

• Lysis / Lytic cycle: The process where a phage replicates and destroys the host cell, as opposed to integrating into it.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the process by which a bacterium acquires a phage that becomes integrated into its genome

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