The lytic and lysogenic cycles are the two main phases of a virus’ infective lifecycle and route to replication. The lytic cycle, or virulent infection, involves a virus taking control of a host cell ...

What is the lytic life cycle? For temperate bacteriophages, the introduction of certain events (e.g. UV radiation) that may damage or kill the host cell, stimulates transcription of the viral DNA ...

This terminase complex packages DNA into phage heads during assembly of mature phages, which are released by host lysis. In the alternative lysogenic cycle, phage DNA instead integrates into the host ...

Oncogenic Herpesvirus Utilizes Stress-Induced Cell Cycle Checkpoints for Efficient Lytic Replication. PLOS Pathogens , 2016; 12 (2): e1005424 DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005424 Cite This Page : ...

Lytic cycle DNA replication may also be required for the amplification of the viral genome before latency is established 11. This is consistent with the observation that viral lytic gene products ...

When viral DNA is more “liquidy,” it is more easily injected into host cells—so easily, in fact, that multiple virus-carrying capsids may squeeze their DNA payloads into a host cell ...

Lytic phages including T4 and T7 express proteins such as lysins that cause hydrolysis of a host cell’s peptidoglycan layer, leading to bacterial cell death. 4 In contrast to lytic phages, lysogenic ...

For the first time in 60 years, researchers have discovered a new mechanism of genetic transduction, the process by which bacteriophages transfer bacterial DNA between bacteria. This new mechanism ...

Depending on the life cycle of the phage, this lysis can occur either soon after the initiation of infection (lytic cycle) or instead following lengthy periods of delay (lysogenic cycle).