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 ...

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 ...

Viruses that replicate using only the lytic cycle are known as virulent bacteriophages, and viruses that replicate using both lysogenic and lytic cycles are known as temperate bacteriophages.

If the infecting phage is virulent, the infection follows a lytic cycle, or for temperate phages, a lysogenic cycle occurs. Scientists have developed non-personalized and personalized phage therapy ...

Phage infection occurs via two alternate cycles, initiated by the injection of phage DNA or RNA into the host. In the lytic cycle, this is translated to produce phage proteins that hijack the host ...

When a phage infects a bacterial cell, it normally reproduces in one of two ways: 1) the lytic cycle, in which the phage reproduces and lyses the cell, resulting in the release of new phage ...