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Viruses > Bacteriophages > Coliphages > T-Phages

Preferred term

T-Phages  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Bacteriophages T
  • Coliphages T
  • Phages T

Note

  • general or unspecified; prefer specifics; do not confuse with T VIRUS see RETICULOENDOTHELIOSIS VIRUS

Scope note

  • A series of 7 virulent phages which infect E. coli. The T-even phages T2, T4; (BACTERIOPHAGE T4), and T6, and the phage T5 are called "autonomously virulent" because they cause cessation of all bacterial metabolism on infection. Phages T1, T3; (BACTERIOPHAGE T3), and T7; (BACTERIOPHAGE T7) are called "dependent virulent" because they depend on continued bacterial metabolism during the lytic cycle. The T-even phages contain 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in place of ordinary cytosine in their DNA.

History note

  • 80

In other languages

  • T-fagit

    Finnish

  • T-faagi
  • T-faagit
  • T-fagi
  • T-fager

    Swedish

  • Bakteriofager T

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013604

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