1. to cause (a bacterium) to become lysogenic; to integrate viral DNA into a bacterial chromosome
Usage: chiefly British spelling (American: lysogenize); technical term in microbiology and molecular biology

Examples

• The temperate phage lysogenised the bacterial strain, integrating its genome into the host chromosome.
• Researchers lysogenised E. coli cells to study the effects of prophage integration.
• When the virus lysogenises a susceptible bacterium, the viral DNA becomes dormant within the cell.
• The ability to lysogenise different bacterial species varies depending on the phage type.
• Scientists lysogenised the culture to create a stable lysogenic line for their experiments.