Prophage Integration in Bacterial Cells

The lysogenic cycle shows how a bacteriophage can stay inside a bacterial cell without killing it right away. Temperate phages, such as bacteriophage lambda (λ), use this strategy to persist in Escherichia coli while the host cell remains alive.

After attachment to the bacterial surface, the phag...

The lysogenic cycle is a viral replication mechanism in which temperate bacteriophages like lambda integrate their DNA into a host cell without immediate lysis of the cell.

It begins when the lambda phage attaches to E. coli and injects its genetic material.

Inside the host, the linear genome circularizes and integrates into t...