Short Fragments from Both Complementary Strands in the Newly Replicated DNA of Bacteriophage SPP-1
M. Polsinelli 1,
G. Milanesi 2, and
A. T. Ganesan 3
1 Iinstitute of Genetics, University of Pavia, Italy
2 Department of Biochemistry, Stanford Medical School, Palo Alto, California 94304
3 Department of Genetics, Stanford Medical School
Bacillus subtilis bacteriophage SPP-I has separable complementary DNA strands. Fragments of nascent DNA isolated a very short time after phage infection show that these short chains are complementary to both phage DNA strands, as observed by hybridization techniques.