Definition of prophage in English:

prophage

noun ˈprəʊfeɪdʒˈprōˌfāj

Microbiology

The genetic material of a bacteriophage, incorporated into the genome of a bacterium and able to produce phages if specifically activated.
Example sentencesExamples
- This phenomenon is similar to suicidal defense against phage infection, or phage exclusion, programmed by prophages and plasmids, and may well play a similar role.
- It is now known that phages produced by lysogenic bacteria are of the temperate type and that part of the infected bacteria do not lyse but maintain the phage in a latent form called a prophage (lysogenic response).
- The incorporation of plasmids or prophages into the bacterial chromosomes is called transfection.
- To visualize the expression of genes of all 10 prophage and prophage-like regions, the DNA macro-array technique was used.
- Specialized transducing phages generated from the prophage by illegitimate recombination usually contain the E. coli genes gal or bio that are adjacent to the phage genome.

Origin

1950s: from pro-² 'before' + phage.

Definition of prophage in US English:

prophage

nounˈprōˌfāj

Microbiology

The genetic material of a bacteriophage, incorporated into the genome of a bacterium and able to produce phages if specifically activated.
Example sentencesExamples
- Specialized transducing phages generated from the prophage by illegitimate recombination usually contain the E. coli genes gal or bio that are adjacent to the phage genome.
- This phenomenon is similar to suicidal defense against phage infection, or phage exclusion, programmed by prophages and plasmids, and may well play a similar role.
- The incorporation of plasmids or prophages into the bacterial chromosomes is called transfection.
- It is now known that phages produced by lysogenic bacteria are of the temperate type and that part of the infected bacteria do not lyse but maintain the phage in a latent form called a prophage (lysogenic response).
- To visualize the expression of genes of all 10 prophage and prophage-like regions, the DNA macro-array technique was used.

Origin

1950s: from pro- ‘before’ + phage.

单词	prophage
释义	Definition of prophage in English: prophage noun ˈprəʊfeɪdʒˈprōˌfāj Microbiology The genetic material of a bacteriophage, incorporated into the genome of a bacterium and able to produce phages if specifically activated. Example sentencesExamples This phenomenon is similar to suicidal defense against phage infection, or phage exclusion, programmed by prophages and plasmids, and may well play a similar role. It is now known that phages produced by lysogenic bacteria are of the temperate type and that part of the infected bacteria do not lyse but maintain the phage in a latent form called a prophage (lysogenic response). The incorporation of plasmids or prophages into the bacterial chromosomes is called transfection. To visualize the expression of genes of all 10 prophage and prophage-like regions, the DNA macro-array technique was used. Specialized transducing phages generated from the prophage by illegitimate recombination usually contain the E. coli genes gal or bio that are adjacent to the phage genome. Origin 1950s: from pro-² 'before' + phage. Definition of prophage in US English: prophage nounˈprōˌfāj Microbiology The genetic material of a bacteriophage, incorporated into the genome of a bacterium and able to produce phages if specifically activated. Example sentencesExamples Specialized transducing phages generated from the prophage by illegitimate recombination usually contain the E. coli genes gal or bio that are adjacent to the phage genome. This phenomenon is similar to suicidal defense against phage infection, or phage exclusion, programmed by prophages and plasmids, and may well play a similar role. The incorporation of plasmids or prophages into the bacterial chromosomes is called transfection. It is now known that phages produced by lysogenic bacteria are of the temperate type and that part of the infected bacteria do not lyse but maintain the phage in a latent form called a prophage (lysogenic response). To visualize the expression of genes of all 10 prophage and prophage-like regions, the DNA macro-array technique was used. Origin 1950s: from pro- ‘before’ + phage.
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