Medical Definition of Bacteriophage mu

1. An unassigned species of temperate coliphage, in the family myoviridae, composed of a linear, double-stranded molecule of DNA, which is able to insert itself at random at any point on the host chromosome. It frequently causes a mutation by interrupting the continuity of the bacterial operon at the site of insertion. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bacteriophage Mu

bacteriolysis
bacteriolytic
bacteriolytic serum
bacteriolyze
bacteriome
bacteriomes
bacteriopexy
bacteriophaeophytin b
bacteriophage
bacteriophage 2 depolymerase
bacteriophage T3 RNA polymerase
bacteriophage T7 induced DNA polymerase
bacteriophage immunity
bacteriophage lambda
bacteriophage m13
bacteriophage mu (current term)
bacteriophage omicron x174
bacteriophage p1
bacteriophage p2
bacteriophage p22
bacteriophage phi 6
bacteriophage phi x 174
bacteriophage plaque
bacteriophage resistance
bacteriophage t3
bacteriophage t4
bacteriophage t7
bacteriophage typing
bacteriophages
bacteriophagia

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