Inhibitory Effect of Fatty Acids on the Entry of the Lipid-Containing Bacteriophage PR4 into Escherichia coli
- 31 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Virology
- Vol. 25 (2), 479-485
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.25.2.479-485.1978
Abstract
Various unsaturated fatty acids (notably palmitoleic acid and oleic acid) interfered with plaque production by the lipid-containing bacteriophage PR4 on lawns of E. coli. Addition of fatty acid to give 50 .mu.g/ml (.apprx. 0.2 mM) at the time of infection prevented phage replication. If the fatty acid was added after infection, normal amounts of phage were produced. If the fatty acid was added (to 50 .mu.g/ml) to the host cell culture a long enough time before infection such that the fatty acid concentration in the growth medium at the time of infection was reduced .ltorsim. 5 .mu.g/ml (due to fatty acid incorporation by the host cells), normal phage replication also occurred. Neither palmitoleic acid nor oleic acid prevented PR4 attachment to E. coli. Several types of experiments indicated that it is the entry process of the virus that is inhibited by these fatty acids. Specifically, if the fatty acid was added at the time of infection, the host cells were not killed by the virus and no detectable amounts of viral protein were synthesized. Experiments using purified radioisotope-labeled virions showed directly that entry is inhibited. Mutants of PR4 that did replicate in the presence of oleic acid arose spontaneously at a frequency of 10-6. Three of these mutants that were further characterized have protein and phospholipid compositions indistinguishable from those of wild-type PR4.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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