TY - JOUR AU - Czyz, Agata AU - Los, Marcin AU - Wrobel, Borys AU - Wegrzyn, Grzegorz PY - 2001 DA - 2001/04/18 TI - Inhibition of spontaneous induction of lambdoid prophages in Escherichia colicultures: simple procedures with possible biotechnological applications JO - BMC Biotechnology SP - 1 VL - 1 IS - 1 AB - Infections of bacterial cultures by bacteriophages are serious problems in biotechnological laboratories. Apart from such infections, prophage induction in the host cells may also be dangerous. Escherichia coli is a commonly used host in biotechnological production, and many laboratory strains of this bacterium harbour lambdoid prophages. These prophages may be induced under certain conditions leading to phage lytic development. This is fatal for further cultivations as relatively low, though still significant, numbers of phages may be overlooked. Thus, subsequent cultures of non-lysogenic strains may be infected and destroyed by such phage. SN - 1472-6750 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6750-1-1 DO - 10.1186/1472-6750-1-1 ID - Czyz2001 ER -