Sonenshein Abraham L
Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts Unversity School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
Curr Biol. 2006 Jan 10;16(1):R14-6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.12.007.
A recent study explains how bacterial spores capture and protect phage DNA, which remains free in the host cytoplasm but is unable to initiate the virulence pathway that leads to lysis of actively growing bacterial cells.
最近的一项研究解释了细菌孢子如何捕获并保护噬菌体DNA,该DNA在宿主细胞质中保持游离状态,但无法启动导致活跃生长的细菌细胞裂解的毒性途径。