Bauman V, Pumpen P, Dishler A, Gren EJ. Replication of RNA bacteriophages in the presence of rifamycin.
J Virol 1978;
28:717-24. [PMID:
366177 PMCID:
PMC525795 DOI:
10.1128/jvi.28.3.717-724.1978]
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Abstract
Replication of RNA bacteriophages in the presence of rifamycin was studied in different Escherichia coli strains that vary in RNase content but are not isogenic: AB259 RNase+, Q13 RNase I- PNPase-, AB105 RNase I- RNase III-. It was found that rifamycin did not affect characteristics of phage replication such as the general pattern of viral RNA synthesis and intracellular development of the phage. These characteristics are strain specific and independent of the cell growth rate, which defines only phage release. The inhibition of cell division by rifamycin interfered with the release of the phage and thus produced an apparent effect of rifamycin on phage replication.
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