An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

LWOFF, André Michel

2 entries
  • 13937

Conditions de l'efficacité inductice du rayonnement ultra-violet chez une bactérie lysogène.

Ann. Inst. Pasteur, 81, 370-389, 1951.

Lwoff successfully explained how the process of lysogeny works. The bacteriophage’s genes are incorporated into the bacteria’s genetic material, but remain latent until a trigger factor causes a new phage to be formed. Lwoff also showed that ultraviolet light can be a trigger factor. See also Lwoff's "Lysogeny," Bacteriological Reviews, 17 (1953) 269-337. Digital facsimile of Lysogeny from PubMedCentral at this link.



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › Lysogeny
  • 13938

Rôle des cations bivalents dans l'induction du développement du prophage par les agents reducteurs.

C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 234, 366-368, 1952.

Lwoff (Nobel Prize 1965) gave the name "prophage" to the form in which the genome of the bacteriophage is perpetuated in lysogenic bacteria. The bacteriophages produced by these bacteria, known as temperate bacteriophages, can therefore follow one of two pathways when they infect sensitive bacteria. Either, like virulent bacteriophages, they multiply in the bacteria which lyse releasing infectious bacteriophages, or their genome is incorporated into the bacteria that they perpetuate in non-infectious form, the prophage.



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › Lysogeny