Abstract
Forty temperature-sensitive mutations affecting lytic growth and eight affecting both establishment and maintenance of lysogeny of the temperate mycobacteriophage L1 have been isolated. All of the latter mutations form one complementation group and map within a very short region around the 15% coordinate of the L1 genome; these affect a single gene, cl, coding for the L1 repressor. The former 40 mutations form 28 complementation groups, identifying 28 different genes, G1-G28, essential for the lytic growth of L1. These genes have been mapped using the Gts mutations. Of the 28 Gts mutants, 14 are defective in host lysis at 42° but not at 32° while the other 14 can lyse the host at both temperatures. Among the former 14 Gts mutants, 6 are also defective in L1 DNA synthesis at 42°, and they map in two different clusters, 4 around 65% and 2 around 84% of the L1 genome.
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