Transposon Tagging to Detect a Latent Virus in Myxococcus xanthus
- 1 November 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 230 (4725) , 541-543
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.2996138
Abstract
Transposon mutagenesis of the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus with the transposon Tn5 revealed a special class of bacterial mutants that transduced the transposon through culture supernatant fluids. Virus-like particles copurified with transducing activity. Transposon tagging for detecting these virus-like particles may be generally useful in isolating endogenous viral agents capable of transferring genetic information between cells.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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