Whilst the ultimate outcome of the lytic cycle is production of new phage progeny and death of the host bacterial cell, this is a multistep process involving precise coordination of gene transcription ...

58, No. 2, 2013 To kill or not to kill: The balance betw... Experiments were conducted to investigate spatiotemporal patterns in lytic and lysogenic viral infection using water samples collected on ...

The observed rapid cleavage of ICP4 indicates that a T-cell response to virus-infected cells can quickly remove a protein that is important for the initiation of the lytic replication cycle.