Also see Reed's WWW page for more information on this, at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Yeast/wickner.html
cheers,
f.
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| B.F. Francis Ouellette
| GenBank Coordinator
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> From LEIBOWITZ at ocelot.rutgers.edu Thu Mar 13 12:05:07 1997
> To: yeast at net.bio.net
> See many recent reviews by R.B. Wickner on Yeast Virology. There are
> many viruses or virus-like elements that are cytoplasmically inherited
> in yeast, and have been extensively studied in our lab and elsewhere,
> best reviewed by Wickner. However, yeast lacks a good plaquing agent.
> In the late 1950's, Carl Lindegren (a yeast genetics pioneer) published
> a description of an apparent plaquing agent termed "zymophage" in a
> meetings book, but apparently the phenomenon could not be reproduced
> even in his lab. So, there really afre viruses of yeast, but not
> plaquing agents. As El-Sherbeini and Bostian showed, it is possible to
> transmit purified viruses to uninfected spheroplasts, but the
> transmission without human assistance has not been reported. Over a
> few beers, it has often been speculated that such transmission might
> occur in cells under special circumstances, such as mating, although I
> have not seen data to support this plausible notion.
>> Mike Leibowitz
> UMDNJ-RW Johnson Medical School
>>
