AS-IL—ein neuer, in der DDR aufgefundener Stamm des Cyanophagen AS-I

✍ Scribed by V. A. Gorjušin; Dr. E. Stenz; A. A. Averkiev

• Book ID: 102910313
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 580 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0233-111X
• DOI: 10.1002/jobm.19820220309

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

In samples, taken from waters in the surroundings of Leipzig (GDR) in 1978, we found cyanophages in Central Europe for the first time. Among other cyanophages we isolated the new strain AS‐IL. Out of 20 tested cultures of unicellular cyanobacteria seven strains belonging to the genus Synechococcus proved to be susceptible for this cyanophage. In morphology AS‐IL corresponds to the cyanophage AS‐I found in the U.S.A., to which it is related serologically, too. AS‐IL differs from the other strains of AS‐I by a shorter growth cycle, especially a shorter latent period, by the kinetics of inactivation by antiserum, and by a somewhat narrower pH scope of stability. Consequently the isolated cyanophage is to be looked at as a new strain of the cyanophage AS‐I.