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[[Image:Phage2.JPG|300px|thumb|Lysogenic cycle, compared to lytic cycle]]'''Lysogeny''', or the '''lysogenic cycle''', is one of two methods of viral reproduction (the [[lytic cycle]] is the other). Lysogeny in prokaryotes is characterized by integration of the [[bacteriophage]] nucleic acid into the host bacterium's genome. The newly integrated genetic material, called a [[prophage]] can be transmitted to daughter cells at each subsequent cell division, and a later event (such as [[ultraviolet|UV radiation]]) can release it, causing proliferation of new phages via the lytic cycle. Lysogenic cycles can also occur in eukaryotes, although the method of incorporation of DNA is not fully understood. | [[Image:Phage2.JPG|300px|thumb|Lysogenic cycle, compared to lytic cycle]]'''Lysogeny''', or the '''lysogenic cycle''', is one of two methods of viral reproduction (the [[lytic cycle]] is the other). Lysogeny in prokaryotes is characterized by integration of the [[bacteriophage]] nucleic acid into the host bacterium's genome. The newly integrated genetic material, called a [[prophage]] can be transmitted to daughter cells at each subsequent cell division, and a later event (such as [[ultraviolet|UV radiation]]) can release it, causing proliferation of new phages via the lytic cycle. Lysogenic cycles can also occur in eukaryotes, although the method of incorporation of DNA is not fully understood. | ||
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| + | :one of the two main life cycles of a virus inside a host cell,whereby the virus that has infected a cell attaches itself to the host DNA and replicates when the host cell divides. | ||
| + | It is contrasted with the lytic cycle, whereby the virus that has entered the cell replicates, taking over the ccell's replicaton, and make viral DNA and viral proteins, and then digest the cell whall and cause dintegrati nof the nfected host cell, allwoing new virus to leave the cell and infect other cells. | ||
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| + | causes no harm to the cell acting like neret segment of the DNA of the host, whe DNA replicates of cell divides. | ||
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| + | latent state, in which genome is present but inactive nit he cell and no progeny are produced. | ||
| + | If exposes to ultraviolet light | ||
| + | multiplies normally until subjected to environment insult as exposure to UV light or ionizing radiaion, thn the nt he virus leaves host chrmosome and begins mnomral scyle of viral replication (lytic cycle). | ||
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| + | replicates along with host to form new integrated viral DNA copies. | ||
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Lysogeny, or the lysogenic cycle, is one of two methods of viral reproduction (the lytic cycle is the other). Lysogeny in prokaryotes is characterized by integration of the bacteriophage nucleic acid into the host bacterium's genome. The newly integrated genetic material, called a prophage can be transmitted to daughter cells at each subsequent cell division, and a later event (such as UV radiation) can release it, causing proliferation of new phages via the lytic cycle. Lysogenic cycles can also occur in eukaryotes, although the method of incorporation of DNA is not fully understood.
- one of the two main life cycles of a virus inside a host cell,whereby the virus that has infected a cell attaches itself to the host DNA and replicates when the host cell divides.
It is contrasted with the lytic cycle, whereby the virus that has entered the cell replicates, taking over the ccell's replicaton, and make viral DNA and viral proteins, and then digest the cell whall and cause dintegrati nof the nfected host cell, allwoing new virus to leave the cell and infect other cells.
causes no harm to the cell acting like neret segment of the DNA of the host, whe DNA replicates of cell divides.
latent state, in which genome is present but inactive nit he cell and no progeny are produced. If exposes to ultraviolet light multiplies normally until subjected to environment insult as exposure to UV light or ionizing radiaion, thn the nt he virus leaves host chrmosome and begins mnomral scyle of viral replication (lytic cycle).
replicates along with host to form new integrated viral DNA copies.
Mixed cycles
Following are some types of viruses that replicate by the lysogenic cycle, but also partly by the lytic cycle.
Bacteriophages
Some DNA phages, called temperate phages, only lyse a small fraction of bacterial cells; in the remaining majority of the bacteria, the phage DNA becomes integrated into the bacterial chromosome and replicates along with it. In this lysogenic state, the information contained in the viral nucleic acid is not expressed. The model organism for studying lysogeny is the lambda phage. Roughly 50-60 nucleotides are taken out of the lysogenic pathway and used.
Lysogenic conversion
In some interactions between lysogenic phages and bacteria, lysogenic conversion may occur. It is when a temperate phage induces a change in the phenotype of the bacteria infected that is not part of a usual phage cycle. Changes can often involve the external membrane of the cell by making it impervious to other phages or even by increasing the pathogenic capability of the bacteria for a host.
Examples:
- Corynebacterium diphtheriae produces the toxin of diphtheria only when it is infected by the phage β. In this case, the gene that codes for the toxin is carried by the phage, not the bacteria.
- Vibrio cholerae is a non-toxic strain that can become toxic, producing cholera toxin, when it is infected with the phage CTXφ.
- Clostridium botulinum causes botulism.
- Streptococcus pyogenes causes scarlet fever.
- Shiga toxin
Extra genes present in prophage genomes which do not have a phage function but (may) act as fitness factors for the lysogen are termed "morons".[1]
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- ↑ Canchaya C, Proux C, Fournous G, Bruttin A, Brüssow H (2003). Prophage genomics. Microbiol. Mol. Biol. Rev. 67 (2): 238–76.
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