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Li Y, Liu X, Tang K, Wang P, Zeng Z, Guo Y, Wang X. Excisionase in Pf filamentous prophage controls lysis-lysogeny decision-making in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Mol Microbiol 2018; 111:495-513. [PMID: 30475408 PMCID: PMC7379572 DOI: 10.1111/mmi.14170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/17/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Pf filamentous prophages are prevalent among clinical and environmental Pseudomonasaeruginosa isolates. Pf4 and Pf5 prophages are integrated into the host genomes of PAO1 and PA14, respectively, and play an important role in biofilm development. However, the genetic factors that directly control the lysis‐lysogeny switch in Pf prophages remain unclear. Here, we identified and characterized the excisionase genes in Pf4 and Pf5 (named xisF4 and xisF5, respectively). XisF4 and XisF5 represent two major subfamilies of functional excisionases and are commonly found in Pf prophages. While both of them can significantly promote prophage excision, only XisF5 is essential for Pf5 excision. XisF4 activates Pf4 phage replication by upregulating the phage initiator gene (PA0727). In addition, xisF4 and the neighboring phage repressor c gene pf4r are transcribed divergently and their 5′‐untranslated regions overlap. XisF4 and Pf4r not only auto‐activate their own expression but also repress each other. Furthermore, two H‐NS family proteins, MvaT and MvaU, coordinately repress Pf4 production by directly repressing xisF4. Collectively, we reveal that Pf prophage excisionases cooperate in controlling lysogeny and phage production.
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- Yangmei Li
- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, PR China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, PR China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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Molecular piracy is a biological phenomenon in which one replicon (the pirate) uses the structural proteins encoded by another replicon (the helper) to package its own genome and thus allow its propagation and spread. Such piracy is dependent on a complex web of interactions between the helper and the pirate that occur at several levels, from transcriptional control to macromolecular assembly. The best characterized examples of molecular piracy are from the E. coli P2/P4 system and the S. aureus SaPI pathogenicity island/helper system. In both of these cases, the pirate element is mobilized and packaged into phage-like transducing particles assembled from proteins supplied by a helper phage that belongs to the Caudovirales order of viruses (tailed, dsDNA bacteriophages). In this review we will summarize and compare the processes that are involved in molecular piracy in these two systems.
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- Gail E. Christie
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, PO Box 980678, Richmond, VA 23298-0678, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 845 19th St South BBRB 311, Birmingham, AL 35294 USA
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Damle PK, Wall EA, Spilman MS, Dearborn AD, Ram G, Novick RP, Dokland T, Christie GE. The roles of SaPI1 proteins gp7 (CpmA) and gp6 (CpmB) in capsid size determination and helper phage interference. Virology 2012; 432:277-82. [PMID: 22709958 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2012.05.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2012] [Revised: 03/28/2012] [Accepted: 05/24/2012] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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SaPIs are molecular pirates that exploit helper bacteriophages for their own high frequency mobilization. One striking feature of helper exploitation by SaPIs is redirection of the phage capsid assembly pathway to produce smaller phage-like particles with T=4 icosahedral symmetry rather than T=7 bacteriophage capsids. Small capsids can accommodate the SaPI genome but not that of the helper phage, leading to interference with helper propagation. Previous studies identified two proteins encoded by the prototype element SaPI1, gp6 and gp7, in SaPI1 procapsids but not in mature SaPI1 particles. Dimers of gp6 form an internal scaffold, aiding fidelity of small capsid assembly. Here we show that both SaPI1 gp6 (CpmB) and gp7 (CpmA) are necessary and sufficient to direct small capsid formation. Surprisingly, failure to form small capsids did not restore wild-type levels of helper phage growth, suggesting an additional role for these SaPI1 proteins in phage interference.
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- Priyadarshan K Damle
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA 23298-0678, USA.
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Dearborn AD, Laurinmaki P, Chandramouli P, Rodenburg CM, Wang S, Butcher SJ, Dokland T. Structure and size determination of bacteriophage P2 and P4 procapsids: function of size responsiveness mutations. J Struct Biol 2012; 178:215-24. [PMID: 22508104 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsb.2012.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2010] [Revised: 02/22/2012] [Accepted: 04/02/2012] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Bacteriophage P4 is dependent on structural proteins supplied by a helper phage, P2, to assemble infectious virions. Bacteriophage P2 normally forms an icosahedral capsid with T=7 symmetry from the gpN capsid protein, the gpO scaffolding protein and the gpQ portal protein. In the presence of P4, however, the same structural proteins are assembled into a smaller capsid with T=4 symmetry. This size determination is effected by the P4-encoded protein Sid, which forms an external scaffold around the small P4 procapsids. Size responsiveness (sir) mutants in gpN fail to assemble small capsids even in the presence of Sid. We have produced large and small procapsids by co-expression of gpN with gpO and Sid, respectively, and applied cryo-electron microscopy and three-dimensional reconstruction methods to visualize these procapsids. gpN has an HK97-like fold and interacts with Sid in an exposed loop where the sir mutations are clustered. The T=7 lattice of P2 has dextro handedness, unlike the laevo lattices of other phages with this fold observed so far.
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- Altaira D Dearborn
- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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Häuser R, Blasche S, Dokland T, Haggård-Ljungquist E, von Brunn A, Salas M, Casjens S, Molineux I, Uetz P. Bacteriophage protein-protein interactions. Adv Virus Res 2012; 83:219-98. [PMID: 22748812 PMCID: PMC3461333 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-394438-2.00006-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Bacteriophages T7, λ, P22, and P2/P4 (from Escherichia coli), as well as ϕ29 (from Bacillus subtilis), are among the best-studied bacterial viruses. This chapter summarizes published protein interaction data of intraviral protein interactions, as well as known phage-host protein interactions of these phages retrieved from the literature. We also review the published results of comprehensive protein interaction analyses of Pneumococcus phages Dp-1 and Cp-1, as well as coliphages λ and T7. For example, the ≈55 proteins encoded by the T7 genome are connected by ≈43 interactions with another ≈15 between the phage and its host. The chapter compiles published interactions for the well-studied phages λ (33 intra-phage/22 phage-host), P22 (38/9), P2/P4 (14/3), and ϕ29 (20/2). We discuss whether different interaction patterns reflect different phage lifestyles or whether they may be artifacts of sampling. Phages that infect the same host can interact with different host target proteins, as exemplified by E. coli phage λ and T7. Despite decades of intensive investigation, only a fraction of these phage interactomes are known. Technical limitations and a lack of depth in many studies explain the gaps in our knowledge. Strategies to complete current interactome maps are described. Although limited space precludes detailed overviews of phage molecular biology, this compilation will allow future studies to put interaction data into the context of phage biology.
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- Roman Häuser
- Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
- Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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- Max-von-Pettenkofer-Institut, Lehrstuhl Virologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany
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- Centro de Biología Molecular “Severo Ochoa” (CSIC-UAM), Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Pathology Department, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Texas–Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
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- Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
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Chang JR, Spilman MS, Rodenburg CM, Dokland T. Functional domains of the bacteriophage P2 scaffolding protein: identification of residues involved in assembly and protease activity. Virology 2008; 384:144-50. [PMID: 19064277 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2008.11.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2008] [Revised: 11/04/2008] [Accepted: 11/10/2008] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Bacteriophage P2 encodes a scaffolding protein, gpO, which is required for correct assembly of P2 procapsids from the gpN major capsid protein. The 284 residue gpO protein also acts as a protease, cleaving itself into an N-terminal fragment, O, that remains in the capsid following maturation. In addition, gpO is presumed to act as the maturation protease for gpN, which is N-terminally processed to N, accompanied by DNA packaging and capsid expansion. The protease activity of gpO resides in the N-terminal half of the protein. We show that gpO is a classical serine protease, with a catalytic triad comprised of Asp 19, His 48 and Ser 107. The C-terminal 90 amino acids of gpO are required and sufficient for capsid assembly. This fragment contains a predicted alpha-helical segment between residues 197 and 257 and exists as a multimer in solution, suggesting that oligomerization is required for scaffolding activity. Correct assembly requires the C-terminal cysteine residue, which is most likely involved in transient gpN interactions. Our results suggest a model for gpO scaffolding action in which the N-terminal half of gpO binds strongly to gpN, while oligomerization of the C-terminal alpha-helical domain of gpO and transient interactions between Cys 284 and gpN lead to capsid assembly.
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- Jenny R Chang
- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, BBRB 311, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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Chang JR, Poliakov A, Prevelige PE, Mobley JA, Dokland T. Incorporation of scaffolding protein gpO in bacteriophages P2 and P4. Virology 2007; 370:352-61. [PMID: 17931675 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2007.08.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2007] [Revised: 08/07/2007] [Accepted: 08/31/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Scaffolding proteins act as chaperones for the assembly of numerous viruses, including most double-stranded DNA bacteriophages. In bacteriophage P2, an internal scaffolding protein, gpO, is required for the assembly of correctly formed viral capsids. Bacteriophage P4 is a satellite phage that has acquired the ability to take control of the P2 genome and use the P2 capsid protein gpN to assemble a capsid that is smaller than the normal P2 capsid. This size determination is dependent on the P4 external scaffolding protein Sid. Although Sid is sufficient to form morphologically correct P4-size capsids, the P2 internal scaffolding protein gpO is required for the formation of viable capsids of both P2 and P4. In most bacteriophages, the scaffolding protein is either proteolytically degraded or exits intact from the capsid after assembly. In the P2/P4 system, however, gpO is cleaved to an N-terminal fragment, O(*), that remains inside the mature capsid after DNA packaging. We previously showed that gpO exhibits autoproteolytic activity, which is abolished by removal of the first 25 amino acids. Co-expression of gpN with this N-terminally truncated version of gpO leads to the production of immature P2 procapsid shells. Here, we use protein analysis and mass spectroscopy to show that P2 and P4 virions as well as procapsids isolated from viral infections contain O(*) and that cleavage occurs between residues 141 and 142 of gpO. By co-expression of gpN with truncated gpO proteins, we show that O(*) binds to gpN and retains the proteolytic activity of gpO and that the C-terminal 90 residues of gpO (residues 195-284) are sufficient to promote the formation of P2-size procapsids. Using mass spectrometry, we have also identified the head completion protein gpL in the virions.
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- Jenny R Chang
- Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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Wang S, Chang JR, Dokland T. Assembly of bacteriophage P2 and P4 procapsids with internal scaffolding protein. Virology 2006; 348:133-40. [PMID: 16457867 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2005.12.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2005] [Revised: 10/17/2005] [Accepted: 12/15/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Assembly of the E. coli bacteriophage P2 into an icosahedral capsid with T = 7 symmetry is dependent on the gpN capsid protein, the gpQ connector protein and the gpO internal scaffolding protein. In the presence of the P4-encoded protein Sid, the same proteins are assembled into a smaller capsid with T = 4 symmetry. Although gpO has long been expected to act as an internal scaffolding protein, it has not been possible to produce P2 procapsids efficiently in vitro or in vivo due to a failure to express gpO at high levels. In this study, we find that full-length gpO undergoes proteolytic degradation within 1 h of induction of expression. However, a truncated version of gpO lacking the N-terminal 25 amino acids (Odelta25) is stably expressed at high levels and is able to direct the formation of P2 size procapsids. In the presence of Sid, Odelta25 is incorporated into P4 procapsids, showing that Sid overrides the effect of gpO on capsid size determination.
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- Sifang Wang
- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 845 19th St South, BBRB 311, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
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Calì S, Spoldi E, Piazzolla D, Dodd IB, Forti F, Dehò G, Ghisotti D. Bacteriophage P4 Vis protein is needed for prophage excision. Virology 2004; 322:82-92. [PMID: 15063119 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2004.01.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2003] [Revised: 01/12/2004] [Accepted: 01/16/2004] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Upon infection of its host Escherichia coli, satellite bacteriophage P4 can integrate its genome into the bacterial chromosome by Int-mediated site-specific recombination between the attP and the attB sites. The opposite event, excision, may either occur spontaneously or be induced by a superinfecting P2 helper phage. In this work, we demonstrate that the product of the P4 vis gene, a regulator of the P4 late promoters P(LL) and P(sid), is needed for prophage excision. This conclusion is supported by the following evidence: (i) P4 mutants carrying either a frameshift mutation or a deletion of the vis gene were unable to excise both spontaneously or upon P2 phage superinfection; (ii) expression of the Vis protein from a plasmid induced P4 prophage excision; (iii) excision depended on a functional integrase (Int) protein, thus suggesting that Vis is involved in the formation of the excision complex, rather than in the excision recombination event per se; (iv) Vis protein bound P4 DNA in the attP region at two distinct boxes (Box I and Box II), located between the int gene and the attP core region, and caused bending of the bound DNA. Furthermore, we mapped by primer extension the 5' end of the int transcript and found that ectopic expression of Vis reduced its signal intensity, suggesting that Vis is also involved in negative regulation of the int promoter.
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- Simona Calì
- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomolecolari e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
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Wang S, Chandramouli P, Butcher S, Dokland T. Cleavage leads to expansion of bacteriophage P4 procapsids in vitro. Virology 2003; 314:1-8. [PMID: 14517054 DOI: 10.1016/s0042-6822(03)00375-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Proteolytic cleavage of the structural proteins is an important part of the maturation process for most bacteriophages and other viruses. In the double-stranded DNA bacteriophages this cleavage is associated with DNA packaging, capsid expansion, and scaffold removal. To understand the role of protein cleavage in the expansion of bacteriophages P2 and P4, we have experimentally cleaved P4 procapsids produced by overexpression of the capsid and scaffolding proteins. The cleavage leads to particle expansion and scaffold removal in vitro. The resulting expanded capsid has a thin-shelled structure similar, but not identical, to that of mature virions.
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- Sifang Wang
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore
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Dokland T, Wang S, Lindqvist BH. The structure of P4 procapsids produced by coexpression of capsid and external scaffolding proteins. Virology 2002; 298:224-31. [PMID: 12127785 DOI: 10.1006/viro.2002.1485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The double-stranded DNA bacteriophage P4 has a T = 4 icosahedral arrangement of the gpN capsid protein derived from the P2 helper phage. The precursor procapsids in addition contain an external scaffold made up of the P4-encoded Sid protein. High yields of pure P4 procapsids have been obtained by coexpressing the gpN and Sid proteins from a chimeric plasmid. Biochemical measurements show that the ratio of gpN to Sid in the procapsids is 2:1, corresponding to 120 copies of Sid per procapsid particle. A reconstruction of the P4 procapsid, made from 213 particle images to an effective resolution of about 21 A, greatly improves on the previously determined P4 procapsid structures. The structure shows a T = 4 capsid shell and a unique tandem arrangement of 120 copies of chilli-shaped Sid monomers, which form trimers and dimers on the procapsid surface.
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Baker TS, Olson NH, Fuller SD. Adding the third dimension to virus life cycles: three-dimensional reconstruction of icosahedral viruses from cryo-electron micrographs. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 1999; 63:862-922, table of contents. [PMID: 10585969 PMCID: PMC98980 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.63.4.862-922.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 367] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Viruses are cellular parasites. The linkage between viral and host functions makes the study of a viral life cycle an important key to cellular functions. A deeper understanding of many aspects of viral life cycles has emerged from coordinated molecular and structural studies carried out with a wide range of viral pathogens. Structural studies of viruses by means of cryo-electron microscopy and three-dimensional image reconstruction methods have grown explosively in the last decade. Here we review the use of cryo-electron microscopy for the determination of the structures of a number of icosahedral viruses. These studies span more than 20 virus families. Representative examples illustrate the use of moderate- to low-resolution (7- to 35-A) structural analyses to illuminate functional aspects of viral life cycles including host recognition, viral attachment, entry, genome release, viral transcription, translation, proassembly, maturation, release, and transmission, as well as mechanisms of host defense. The success of cryo-electron microscopy in combination with three-dimensional image reconstruction for icosahedral viruses provides a firm foundation for future explorations of more-complex viral pathogens, including the vast number that are nonspherical or nonsymmetrical.
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- T S Baker
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1392, USA.
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Ghisotti D, Briani F, Forti F, Piazza F, Polo S, Sabbattini P, Sturniolo T, Terzano S, Zangrossi S, Zappone M. Multiple regulatory mechanisms controlling phage-plasmid P4 propagation. FEMS Microbiol Rev 1995; 17:127-34. [PMID: 7669338 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.1995.tb00194.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Bacteriophage P4 autonomous replication may result in the lytic cycle or in plasmid maintenance, depending, respectively, on the presence or absence of the helper phage P2 genome in the Escherichia coli host cell. Alternatively, P4 may lysogenize the bacterial host and be maintained in an immune-integrated condition. A key step in the choice between the lytic/plasmid vs. the lysogenic condition is the regulation of P4 alpha operon. This operon may be transcribed from two promoters, PLE and PLL, and encodes both immunity (promoter proximal) and replication (promoter distal) functions. PLE is a constitutive promoter and transcription of the downstream replication genes is regulated by transcription termination. The trans-acting immunity factor that controls premature transcription termination is a short RNA encoded in the PLE proximal part of the operon. Expression of the replication functions in the lytic/plasmid condition is achieved by activation of the PLL promoter. Transcription from PLL is insensitive to the termination mechanism that acts on transcription starting from PLE.PLL is also negatively regulated by P4 orf88, the first gene downstream of PLL. An additional control on P4 DNA replication is exerted by the P4 cnr gene product.
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- D Ghisotti
- Dipartimento di Genetica e di Biologia dei Microrganismi, Università di Milano, Italy
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Ziegelin G, Linderoth NA, Calendar R, Lanka E. Domain structure of phage P4 alpha protein deduced by mutational analysis. J Bacteriol 1995; 177:4333-41. [PMID: 7635818 PMCID: PMC177181 DOI: 10.1128/jb.177.15.4333-4341.1995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Bacteriophage P4 DNA replication depends on the product of the alpha gene, which has origin recognition ability, DNA helicase activity, and DNA primase activity. One temperature-sensitive and four amber mutations that eliminate DNA replication in vivo were sequenced and located in the alpha gene. Sequence analysis of the entire gene predicted a domain structure for the alpha polypeptide chain (777 amino acid residues, M(r) 84,900), with the N terminus providing the catalytic activity for the primase and the middle part providing that for the helicase/nucleoside triphosphatase. This model was confirmed experimentally in vivo and in vitro. In addition, the ori DNA recognition ability was found to be associated with the C-terminal third of the alpha polypeptide chain. The type A nucleotide-binding site is required for P4 replication in vivo, as shown for alpha mutations at G-506 and K-507. In the absence of an active DnaG protein, the primase function is also essential for P4 replication. Primase-null and helicase-null mutants retain the two remaining activities functionally in vitro and in vivo. The latter was demonstrated by trans complementation studies, indicating the assembly of active P4 replisomes by a primase-null and a helicase-null mutant.
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- G Ziegelin
- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin, Germany
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Kellenberger E, Wunderli-Allenspach H. Electron microscopic studies on intracellular phage development--history and perspectives. Micron 1995; 26:213-45. [PMID: 7788280 DOI: 10.1016/0968-4328(94)00051-q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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This review is centered on the applications of thin sections to the study of intracellular precursors of bacteriophage heads. Results obtained with other preparation methods are included in so far as they are essential for the comprehension of the biological problems. This type of work was pioneered with phage T4, which contributed much to today's understanding of morphogenesis and form determination. The T4 story is rich in successes, but also in many fallacies. Due to its large size, T4 is obviously prone to preparation artefacts such as emptying, flattening and others. Many of these artefacts were first encountered in T4. Artefacts are mostly found in lysates, however, experience shows that they are not completely absent from thin sections. This can be explained by the fact that permeability changes induced by fixatives occur. The information gained from T4 was profitably used for the study of other phages. They are included in this review as far as electron microscopic studies played a major role in the elucidation of their morphogenetic pathways. Research on phage assembly pathways and form determination is a beautiful illustration for the power of the integrated approach which combines electron microscopy with biochemistry, genetics and biophysics. As a consequence, we did not restrict ourselves to the review of electron microscopic work but tried to integrate pertinent data which contribute to the understanding of the molecular mechanisms acting in determining the form of supramolecular structures.
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- E Kellenberger
- Department of Microbiology, Biocenter of the University, Basel, Switzerland
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Bastow KF, Itoigawa M, Furukawa H, Kashiwada Y, Bori ID, Ballas LM, Lee KH. Antiproliferative actions of 7-substituted 1,3-dihydroxyacridones; possible involvement of DNA topoisomerase II and protein kinase C as biochemical targets. Bioorg Med Chem 1994; 2:1403-11. [PMID: 7788303 DOI: 10.1016/s0968-0896(00)82092-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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7-Chloro-1,3-dihydroxyacridone (1) reversibly inhibited growth of KB and vero cell lines with IC50's of 35 and 40 microM, respectively, and a topoisomerase II-mediated multidrug resistant KB sub-clone was found to be about three-fold more susceptible to 1. In contrast, two cell lines of lymphoid origin were killed following treatments with 60 microM and at higher concentrations of 1. KB cell growth inhibition correlated with a rapid, reversible suppression of thymidine incorporation. Uridine but not leucine incorporation was also rapidly suppressed. The in vitro activities of DNA topoisomerase II and novel protein kinase C-subtype delta were inhibited at effective concentrations in tissue-culture, but 1 did not stimulate intracellular protein-associated DNA breaks nor interfere initially with topoisomerase II-mediated DNA cleavage in KB cells. In addition to antiproliferative effects against cells, the compound was weakly virustatic for herpes simplex virus type I with an IC50 of 8 microM. Limited studies comparing three 1-congeners and citpressine-I, an acridone alkaloid with reported antiherpes activity, demonstrated that 7-substituted 1,3-dihydroxyacridones are novel antiproliferative agents which share similar biological and biochemical properties.
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- K F Bastow
- Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599, USA
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Terzano S, Christian R, Espinoza FH, Calendar R, Dehò G, Ghisotti D. A new gene of bacteriophage P4 that controls DNA replication. J Bacteriol 1994; 176:6059-65. [PMID: 7928967 PMCID: PMC196825 DOI: 10.1128/jb.176.19.6059-6065.1994] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Bacteriophage P4 replication may result in either a lytic cycle or plasmid maintenance, depending on the presence or absence, respectively, of helper phase P2 genome. Bacteriophage P4 DNA replication depends on the product of gene alpha, which has origin recognition, primase, and helicase activities. An open reading frame with the coding capacity for a protein of 106 amino acids (orf106) is located upstream of the alpha gene. Genes orf106 and alpha are transcriptionally coregulated. Three amber mutations and an internal deletion (del51) were introduced into orf106. All of the amber mutations exhibited a polar effect on transcription of the downstream alpha gene. The P4 del51 mutant was slightly defective in lytic growth and could not be propagated in the plasmid state. In this latter condition, P4 DNA overreplication was observed. Overexpression of Orf106 severely inhibited P4 DNA replication, preventing P4 lytic growth and plasmid maintenance. The inhibitory effect of Orf106 on P4 replication was not observed when both orf106 and alpha were overexpressed. We suggest that orf106 is involved in P4 replication and that a balanced expression of orf106 relative to alpha may be necessary for proper P4 DNA replication. In particular, orf106 appears to be essential for the control of P4 genome replication in the plasmid state. We propose that orf106 be named cnr, for copy number regulation.
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- S Terzano
- Dipartimento di Genetica e di Biologia dei Microrganismi, Università di Milano, Italy
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Bastow KF, Tatematsu H, Sun L, Fukushima Y, Lee KH. Synthesis and biological evaluation of tetrademethyl isocolchicine derivatives as inhibitors of DNA topoisomerase action in vitro. Bioorg Med Chem 1993; 1:227-34. [PMID: 8081856 DOI: 10.1016/s0968-0896(00)82125-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Four tetrademethyl isocolchicine analogs were prepared and evaluated as inhibitors of mammalian DNA topoisomerase in vitro. All compounds inhibited topoisomerase II-dependent DNA unknotting by a mechanism which did not involve "cleavable-complex" formation. N-Deacetylation as well as N-substitution with the (3',4',5'-trihydroxybenzoyl)-group afforded compounds which were less selective, based on their added ability to inhibit topoisomerase I-mediated DNA relaxation.
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- K F Bastow
- Division of Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599
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Lindqvist BH, Dehò G, Calendar R. Mechanisms of genome propagation and helper exploitation by satellite phage P4. Microbiol Rev 1993; 57:683-702. [PMID: 8246844 PMCID: PMC372931 DOI: 10.1128/mr.57.3.683-702.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Temperate coliphage P2 and satellite phage P4 have icosahedral capsids and contractile tails with side tail fibers. Because P4 requires all the capsid, tail, and lysis genes (late genes) of P2, the genomes of these phages are in constant communication during P4 development. The P4 genome (11,624 bp) and the P2 genome (33.8 kb) share homologous cos sites of 55 bp which are essential for generating 19-bp cohesive ends but are otherwise dissimilar. P4 turns on the expression of helper phage late genes by two mechanisms: derepression of P2 prophage and transactivation of P2 late-gene promoters. P4 also exploits the morphopoietic pathway of P2 by controlling the capsid size to fit its smaller genome. The P4 sid gene product is responsible for capsid size determination, and the P2 capsid gene product, gpN, is used to build both sizes. The P2 capsid contains 420 capsid protein subunits, and P4 contains 240 subunits. The size reduction appears to involve a major change of the whole hexamer complex. The P4 particles are less stable to heat inactivation, unless their capsids are coated with a P4-encoded decoration protein (the psu gene product). P4 uses a small RNA molecule as its immunity factor. Expression of P4 replication functions is prevented by premature transcription termination effected by this small RNA molecule, which contains a sequence that is complementary to a sequence in the transcript that it terminates.
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- B H Lindqvist
- Biologisk Institutt og Bioteknologisenteret i Oslo, Universitetet i Oslo, Norway
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Stevens RH, Goncharoff P, Furgang D, Fine DH, Schreiner HC, Figurski DH. Characterization and physical mapping of the genome of bacteriophage phi Aa from Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans. ORAL MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY 1993; 8:100-4. [PMID: 8355982 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-302x.1993.tb00553.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The size, configuration and restriction map of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans bacteriophage phi Aa DNA was determined by means of restriction endonuclease analysis. Digestion of the phi Aa DNA with restriction enzymes Hind III, Eco RI and Sal I produced 6, 5, and 4 fragments, respectively. Based upon the sum of the sizes of the restriction fragments of these enzymes, the DNA was estimated to be 47.2 kilobase pairs in length. A restriction map was constructed using Hind III and Sal I. Incubation with exonuclease Bal 31 for increasing lengths of time resulted in progressive hydrolysis of the DNA, as expected for a linear molecule. No sub-molar fragments or diffuse bands were observed in the agarose gels of the restriction endonuclease digests of the phi Aa DNA. Attempts at ligating the ends of the DNA were consistently unsuccessful. Therefore, we found no evidence for cohesive ends, a circular permutation of the genome or for headful packaging mechanism from a concatameric DNA precursor.
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- R H Stevens
- Divisions of Oral Infectious Disease and Endodontics, Columbia University, New York, NY
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Polissi A, Bertoni G, Acquati F, Dehò G. Cloning and transposon vectors derived from satellite bacteriophage P4 for genetic manipulation of Pseudomonas and other gram-negative bacteria. Plasmid 1992; 28:101-14. [PMID: 1329125 DOI: 10.1016/0147-619x(92)90041-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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We developed transposon and cloning shuttle vectors for genetic manipulation of Pseudomonas and other gram-negative bacteria, exploiting the unique properties and the broad host range of the satellite bacteriophage P4. P4::Tn5 AP-1 and P4::Tn5 AP-2 are suicide transposon vectors which have been used for efficient Tn5 mutagenesis in Pseudomonas putida. pKGB2 is a phasmid vector with a cloning capacity of about 7.5 kb; useful unique cloning sites are SacI and SacII in the streptomycin resistance determinant and PvuI and XhoI in the kanamycin resistance determinant. pKGB4 is a cosmid derived from pKGB2 and carries the additional cloning site SmaI in the kanamycin resistance determinant; its cloning capacity is about 18 kb. These vectors and their recombined derivatives were transferred from Escherichia coli to P. putida by transduction and may be used for other bacterial species susceptible to P4 infection.
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- A Polissi
- Dipartimento di Genetica e di Biologia dei microrganismi, Università di Milano, Italy
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Isaksen ML, Rishovd ST, Calendar R, Lindqvist BH. The polarity suppression factor of bacteriophage P4 is also a decoration protein of the P4 capsid. Virology 1992; 188:831-9. [PMID: 1585650 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(92)90538-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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We show that the product of the polarity suppression (psu) gene from bacteriophage P4 associates with P4 capsids. This association can occur when Psu is (i) provided in vivo from the P4 genome or from a plasmid or (ii) provided in vitro by mixing viable phage particles with Psu protein. Psu is unable to associate with the larger capsid of P4's helper phage P2. Discrimination of the P4 and P2 capsids by Psu appears to be independent of the presence of the P4 genome in the capsid, since P2 size capsids filled with P4 DNA cannot accommodate Psu association. P4 psu particles devoid of Psu are less stable than P4 particles carrying Psu. These results indicate that, in addition to its antitermination activity at Rho-dependent terminators, Psu is also a decoration protein that stabilizes the P4 capsids.
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- M L Isaksen
- Institute of Biology, University of Oslo, Norway
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Rishovd S, Lindqvist B. Bacteriophage P2 and P4 morphogenesis: protein processing and capsid size determination. Virology 1992; 187:548-54. [PMID: 1546453 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(92)90457-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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An interesting feature of the bacteriophage P2-P4 system is the switch in size between a large P2 (60 nm) and a small P4 (45 nm) capsid. We have investigated whether the protein processing reactions cleaving the primary translation product gpN to several capsid proteins (h1, h2, and N*) are involved in this switch. Using antibodies specific against gpN and its derivatives we have identified all the structural components of mature P2 and P4 particles that are derived from gpN. Our estimate of the relative amounts of gpN derivatives suggests that the previously identified minor capsid proteins h1 and h2 can only be essential structural components of the P4, and not the P2, capsid. Nevertheless, the relative amounts are similar in vivo during a P2 and a P4 infection. This indicates that the switch in head size is not caused by the presence of elevated amounts of h1 and h2 during P4 morphogenesis. We have also identified the sites where gpN is cleaved to its derivatives h1, h2, and N*, ascertaining that the cleavage sites are the same in P2 and P4. Our results indicate that the processing reactions are not directly involved in the head size determination mechanism.
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- S Rishovd
- Institute of Biology, University of Oslo, Norway
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Linderoth NA, Calendar RL. The Psu protein of bacteriophage P4 is an antitermination factor for rho-dependent transcription termination. J Bacteriol 1991; 173:6722-31. [PMID: 1938879 PMCID: PMC209021 DOI: 10.1128/jb.173.21.6722-6731.1991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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A 0.7-kbp DNA fragment from bacteriophage P4 that contained the polarity suppression (psu) gene was cloned in an expression plasmid. Induction of the plasmid-borne psu gene resulted in the overproduction of a protein having the biological properties of the P4-induced polarity suppressor. In vivo, Psu protein acted in trans to suppress rho-dependent polarity in the late genes of an infecting P2 phage, in plasmid operons, and in the host chromosome. Psu action did not require the presence of other P2 or P4 phage genes. Psu caused efficient readthrough (antitermination) by Escherichia coli RNA polymerase at the rho-dependent terminators tR1 and TIS2, individually and in tandem, but did not affect termination at rho-independent sites. Neither the conserved antitermination sequence boxA nor any unique promoter or utilization sequence was required for Psu activity.
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- N A Linderoth
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720
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Six EW, Sunshine MG, Williams J, Haggård-Ljungquist E, Lindqvist BH. Morphopoietic switch mutations of bacteriophage P2. Virology 1991; 182:34-46. [PMID: 1840708 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(91)90645-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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During the growth of bacteriophage P4, for which the genome of bacteriophage P2 is needed as helper, the decision whether to make large, P2 size, heads or small, P4 size, heads depends on the size-directing function of P4's sid gene and on P2's "sid responsiveness." P2 mutants (=P2 sir) impaired in their response to P4's sid function are readily obtainable as one class of P2 plaque formers selected on certain P4 cl plasmid lysogens. We describe nine P2 sir mutants of independent origin. For eight we could assign their sir mutation to P2 gene N, which encodes the major capsid protein. DNA sequencing indicated an open reading frame of 357 codons for gene N and showed these sir mutations to affect only four codons within a 38-codon segment in the middle of N. Seven mutations are missense mutations (three of them identical); one is a deletion of one codon. There seems to be a correlation between the phenotypic "strength" of the sir mutations and the type of amino acid replacement by missense mutations. Although the weakest mutation, sir7, could not yet be assigned to any P2 gene, it appears clear from this work that P2's N gene product is the major (or only) target of P4's Sid gene function.
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- E W Six
- Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242
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A 641-bp cos-containing P2 DNA fragment was sequenced and compared to the P4 cos region. Alignment of the P2 and P4 cos regions shows a homologous region of 55 bp that has only three mismatches and contains a completely conserved region of dyad symmetry. A number of P4- and P2-derived cosmids were tested in an in vivo transduction assay in order to determine the minimal cos region required for packaging. These experiments show that the common region of 55 bp is sufficient for transduction with low frequency, but that a 125-bp cos-containing fragment contains all the information for transduction with optimal frequency.
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- R Ziermann
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720
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Halling C, Calendar R. Bacteriophage P2 ogr and P4 delta genes act independently and are essential for P4 multiplication. J Bacteriol 1990; 172:3549-58. [PMID: 2193911 PMCID: PMC213327 DOI: 10.1128/jb.172.7.3549-3558.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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Satellite bacteriophage P4 requires the products of the late genes of a helper phage such as P2 for lytic growth. Expression of the P2 late genes is positively regulated by the P2 ogr gene in a process requiring P2 DNA replication. Transactivation of P2 late gene expression by P4 requires the P4 delta gene product and works even in the absence of P2 DNA replication. We have made null mutants of the P2 ogr and P4 delta genes. In the absence of the P4 delta gene product, P4 multiplication required both the P2 ogr protein and P2 DNA replication. In the absence of the P2 ogr gene product, P4 multiplication required the P4 delta protein. In complementation experiments, we found that the P2 ogr protein was made in the absence of P2 DNA replication but could not function unless P2 DNA replicated. We produced P4 delta protein from a plasmid and found that it complemented the null P4 delta and P2 ogr mutants.
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- C Halling
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720
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Nonessential region of bacteriophage P4: DNA sequence, transcription, gene products, and functions. J Virol 1990; 64:24-36. [PMID: 2403440 PMCID: PMC249035 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.64.1.24-36.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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We sequenced the leftmost 2,640 base pairs of bacteriophage P4 DNA, thus completing the sequence of the 11,627-base-pair P4 genome. The newly sequenced region encodes three nonessential genes, which are called gop, beta, and cII (in order, from left to right). The gop gene product kills Escherichia coli when the beta protein is absent; the gop and beta genes are transcribed rightward from the same promoter. The cII gene is transcribed leftward to a rho-independent terminator. Mutation of this terminator creates a temperature-sensitive phenotype, presumably owing to a defect in expression of the beta gene.
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Dehó G, Zangrossi S, Ghisotti D, Sironi G. Alternative promoters in the development of bacteriophage plasmid P4. J Virol 1988; 62:1697-704. [PMID: 2833620 PMCID: PMC253205 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.62.5.1697-1704.1988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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Infection of Escherichia coli with the satellite virus P4 without its helper bacteriophage P2 leads either to the immune integrated state or to the nonimmune multicopy plasmid condition. We analyzed the transcription pattern of the phage plasmid P4 early and late after infection and during the stable plasmid or lysogenic condition. The early postinfection phase is characterized by the leftward transcription of an operon including the genes cI (P4 immunity) and alpha (replication). This early transcript starts from the promoter PLE, which shows a good homology with the E. coli sigma 70 promoter. At later times, the transcription of this operon starts from a different promoter, PLL, located 400 base pairs upstream of PLE, and sharing little homology with the canonical E. coli promoter sequence; a longer transcript encoding an additional open reading frame is thus produced. PLL shares two boxes of homology with the P4 late promoter PSID, positively regulated by the P4 delta gene product, and depends on delta function for its full activation. In the multicopy plasmid state, the transcription pattern is similar to that observed at late times after infection. Since in the plasmid state not only is P4 immunity not expressed but its establishment is prevented, even though the P4 cI gene is transcribed, the P4 cI function may be regulated at the posttranscriptional level. In the immune state, transcription starts from PLE but does not continue to cover the P4 alpha gene. This suggests that P4 immunity acts by prematurely terminating transcription initiated at PLE.
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- G Dehó
- Dipartimento di Genetica e di Biologia dei Microrganismi, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
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Flensburg J, Calendar R. Bacteriophage P4 DNA replication. Nucleotide sequence of the P4 replication gene and the cis replication region. J Mol Biol 1987; 195:439-45. [PMID: 3309336 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(87)90664-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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A 3100 base piece of DNA from the 11,500 base genome of bacteriophage P4 was analyzed for its nucleotide sequence. This segment of DNA contains two open reading frames of 106 and 777 amino acid residues; the latter of which is the coding sequence for the Mr 84,841 alpha protein, which is necessary for P4 DNA replication and is thought to act as a P4-specific DNA primase. A region of about 300 base-pairs localized just beyond the alpha gene and about 4500 bases from the origin of replication (ori), was defined as the locus for P4's cis replication region (crr). This region is required for replication both in vivo and in vitro, and consists of two directly repeated sequences of 120 base-pairs that match one another at 98 positions. These directly repeated sequences are separated by 60 base-pairs, which are not necessary for replication. Each repeat in crr contains three copies of the octamer TGTTCACC that is found six times in ori. Either of the 120 base-pair repeat sequences in crr is sufficient for replication, and the entire crr can function in an inverted orientation. crr is also active at a distance of 1800 bases from the P4 origin of replication.
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- J Flensburg
- Department of Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720
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Dale EC, Christie GE, Calendar R. Organization and expression of the satellite bacteriophage P4 late gene cluster. J Mol Biol 1986; 192:793-803. [PMID: 3295254 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(86)90029-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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The satellite bacteriophage P4 genes for capsid size determination (sid), transactivation (delta), and polarity suppression (psu) are cotranscribed at late times after infection from a single P4 late promoter (Psid) that lies to the left of the sid gene. While the -10 region of this promoter is similar to the consensus sequence for Escherichia coli RNA polymerase, the -35 region shares no homology with known classes of E. coli promoters. The -10 and -35 regions of Psid share no homology with the late gene promoters of helper phage P2. Nonetheless, P4 late transcription is stimulated by coinfecting P2, as well as by P2 prophage. This stimulation depends on the P2 encoded transcription factor ogr; transcription from Psid is stimulated following the induction of the P2 ogr gene carried on a plasmid. P4 late transcription in the absence of P2 requires the P4 delta product, which is partially homologous to the P2 ogr gene product. DNA sequence analysis shows that the psu gene codes for a protein of Mr = 21,314 that is unrelated to the antitermination gene products of the lambdoid phages.
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Lagos R, Jiang RZ, Kim S, Goldstein R. Rho-dependent transcription termination of a bacterial operon is antagonized by an extrachromosomal gene product. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1986; 83:9561-5. [PMID: 3540944 PMCID: PMC387180 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.83.24.9561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The psu gene product of "phasmid" (phage-plasmid) P4 acts as a transcription antitermination factor in trans and in cis, respectively, within the morphogenic operons of its P2 phage helper during lytic viral development and on P4 itself during the establishment stage of its alternative mode of propagation as a plasmid. Here we show that psu also antagonizes activity of the Escherichia coli transcription termination factor rho at the terminator of the trp operon. Such a finding provides to our knowledge the first direct evidence for antitermination activity at a known rho-dependent site by the psu gene product. It also reveals an example of an extrachromosomal gene product that acts on specific sites of three different genomes to regulate expression of unlinked families of genes.
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Alano P, Dehò G, Sironi G, Zangrossi S. Regulation of the plasmid state of the genetic element P4. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1986; 203:445-50. [PMID: 3528749 DOI: 10.1007/bf00422069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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After infection of sensitive cells in the absence of a helper phage, the satellite bacteriophage P4 enters a temporary phase of uncommitted replication followed by commitment to either the repressed-integrated condition or the derepressed-high copy number mode of replication. The transient phase and the stable plasmid condition differ from each other in the pattern of protein synthesis, in the rate of P4 DNA replication and in the expression of some gene functions. The regulatory condition characteristic of the P4 plasmid state affects a superinfecting genome, preventing the establishment of the P4 immune condition.
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Christie GE, Haggård-Ljungquist E, Feiwell R, Calendar R. Regulation of bacteriophage P2 late-gene expression: the ogr gene. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1986; 83:3238-42. [PMID: 3458177 PMCID: PMC323488 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.83.10.3238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The ogr gene product of bacteriophage P2 is a positive regulatory factor required for P2 late-gene transcription. We have determined the nucleotide sequence of the ogr gene, which encodes a basic polypeptide of 72 amino acids. P2 growth is blocked by a host mutation, rpoA109, in the alpha subunit of DNA-dependent RNA polymerase. The ogr52 mutation, which allows P2 to grow in an rpoA109 strain, was shown to be a single nucleotide change, in the codon for residue 42, that changes tyrosine to cysteine. The predicted amino acid sequence of the Ogr protein does not show similarity to DNA-binding proteins that are known to affect promoter recognition, to sigma factors, or to other characterized transcriptional regulatory proteins. We have inserted the ogr gene into a plasmid under control of the leftward promoter and operator of bacteriophage lambda. Thermal induction of ogr gene expression in this plasmid results in overproduction of a small protein that has been shown by complementation to possess Ogr function.
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Bowden DW, Modrich P. In vitro maturation of circular bacteriophage P2 DNA. Purification of ter components and characterization of the reaction. J Biol Chem 1985. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)88879-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Krevolin MD, Calendar R. The replication of bacteriophage P4 DNA in vitro. Partial purification of the P4 alpha gene product. J Mol Biol 1985; 182:509-17. [PMID: 3874288 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(85)90237-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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A soluble enzyme system has been prepared from a phage P4-infected Escherichia coli strain that supports the replication of exogenous, supercoiled P4 DNA. This DNA synthesis in vitro depends upon the four deoxyribonucleotides and ATP, but is enhanced about four- to fivefold by the presence of other ribonucleotides. E. coli DNA polymerase III holoenzyme, the E. coli single-strand DNA binding protein, and the partially purified P4 alpha gene product are required for replication in vitro. Rifamycin does not inhibit P4 replication in vitro. Since the P4 alpha gene codes for a rifamycin-resistant RNA polymerase (Barrett et al., 1983), and since P4 DNA replication is independent of the host primase (Bowden et al., 1975), we believe the alpha gene product is functioning as a P4-specific DNA primase.
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Raimondi A, Donghi R, Montaguti A, Pessina A, Dehò G. Analysis of spontaneous deletion mutants of satellite bacteriophage P4. J Virol 1985; 54:233-5. [PMID: 3973980 PMCID: PMC254783 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.54.1.233-235.1985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Spontaneous deletion mutants of satellite bacteriophage P4 have been isolated and characterized. All of the deletions analyzed that were between 850 and 1,700 base pairs long are within the region nonessential for P4 lytic development; some of them cover the cII or the gop locus.
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Christie GE, Calendar R. Bacteriophage P2 late promoters. II. Comparison of the four late promoter sequences. J Mol Biol 1985; 181:373-82. [PMID: 3981640 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(85)90226-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The late genes of bacteriophage P2 are clustered into four transcription units. We have reported the transcription initiation sites for two of the late messenger RNAs, encoding genes QP and ONMLKRS. We have now located the 5' ends of the two remaining late mRNAs. The first gene in the VJHG transcription unit has been located by DNA sequence determination of the single nucleotide change in a V amber mutant. Location of the first gene in the FETUD transcription unit has been inferred from the DNA sequence. The 5' ends of the mRNAs for these two transcription units were located by protection of end-labeled restriction fragments in RNA-DNA hybrids from digestion with nuclease S1. Similar protection of hybrids using RNA that had been 5' end-labeled with [alpha-32P]GTP and guanylyl transferase confirmed that these 5' termini resulted from initiation of transcription. The DNA sequences preceding the P2 late transcription starts are different from the Escherichia coli promoter consensus sequences at -10 and -35, consistent with the apparent requirement for phage-encoded proteins in the regulation of P2 late gene expression. The four P2 late promoters do share sequence homologies in the -10 and -35 regions, however, and several additional homologies further upstream. P2 late gene expression also appears to involve negative regulation by a product of the ONMLKRS gene cluster. When cells are infected with P2 polar O amber mutants, a marked increase in the levels of proteins encoded by the other three gene clusters is observed. This increase is reflected in the amounts of late mRNAs, suggesting that RNA synthesis is normally repressed or that late mRNAs are more labile in the presence of a gene product from the ONMLKRS transcription unit. Satellite phage P4 induced P2 late gene expression without the usual requirement for P2 DNA replication. The 5' ends of the P2 late mRNAs are the same during P4 transactivation as during normal P2 late gene expression. Thus, the regulation of P2 late gene expression by P4 does not involve altered promoter selection.
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Nucleotide sequence of one-third of the genome of coliphage P4 has been obtained and mutations virl, epsilon am104, cI405, sidl, and delta 35 identified. The epsilon gene likely encodes a 10 kd protein with epsilon am104 being located at the beginning of the gene. cI405, a proposed repressor gene mutation, is located in a sequence capable of coding for a 15 kd protein. A new class of P4 mutations, ash, is located in the neighborhood of cI405. Two TATA-like sequences are mapped 5' to this cI (ash) sequence. Virl is possibly a promoter-up mutation and is located near or within the replication origin, which is about 400 bp long and AT rich. A sidl mutation is amber that shortens the sid protein by 9 amino acids. The delta gene may encode a 17 kd protein and appears to be coupled with the sid gene translationally. In the 5' side of the sid gene a sequence of CACAAT is the best TATA-like sequence. Sequences of two possible genes that are previously unrecognized and part of the alpha and psu genes are also identified.
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Dehò G, Ghisotti D, Alano P, Zangrossi S, Borrello MG, Sironi G. Plasmid mode of propagation of the genetic element P4. J Mol Biol 1984; 178:191-207. [PMID: 6492154 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(84)90139-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The satellite bacteriophage P4, in the presence of a helper phage, can enter either the lytic or the lysogenic cycle. In the absence of the helper, P4 can integrate in the bacterial chromosome. In addition, the partially immunity-insensitive mutant P4 vir1 can be maintained as a plasmid. We have found that in the absence of the helper, P4 wt also can be maintained as a plasmid, and that both P4 wt and P4 vir1 have two options for their intracellular propagation: a repressed-integrated or a derepressed-high copy number plasmid mode of maintenance. In the repressed mode, the P4 wt genome is only found integrated into the bacterial chromosome, while the P4 vir1 is found also as a low copy number plasmid coexisting with the integrated P4 vir1 genome. The clones carrying P4 in the derepressed-high copy number plasmid state are obtained at low frequency (0.3%) upon infection with P4 wt, while the vir1 mutation increases this frequency about 300-fold. Such clones can be distinguished easily because of their typical colony morphology (rosettes), due to the presence of filamentous cells. Filamentation of the bacterial host suggests that the presence of derepressed P4 genomes in high copy number interferes with the normal cell division mechanism. The derepressed clones are rather stable, but may revert spontaneously to the repressed state. Spontaneous transition from the repressed to the derepressed state was not observed; however, it can be induced by P2 or P4 vir1 superinfection of P4 wt and P4 vir1 lysogens or by growing the P4 vir1 lysogens up to the late exponential phase. The ability of P4 to choose either of two stable states and the potential to shift between these two modes of propagation indicate that the synthesis of the immunity repressor is regulated.
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Ghisotti D, Zangrossi S, Sironi G. An Escherichia coli gene required for bacteriophage P2-lambda interference. J Virol 1983; 48:616-26. [PMID: 6355505 PMCID: PMC255392 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.48.3.616-626.1983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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The gene old of bacteriophage P2 is known to (i) cause interference with phage lambda growth; (ii) kill recB- mutants of Escherichia coli after P2 infection; and (iii) determine increased sensitivity of P2 lysogenic cells to X-ray irradiation. In all of these phenomena, inhibition of protein synthesis occurs. We have isolated bacterial mutants, named pin (P2 interference), able to suppress all of the above-mentioned phenomena caused by the old+ gene product and the concurrent protein synthesis inhibition. Pin mutations are recessive, map at 12 min on the E. coli map, and identify a new gene. Satellite bacteriophage P4 does not plate on pin-3 mutant strains and causes cell lethality and protein synthesis inhibition in such mutants. P4 mutants able to grow on pin-3 strains have been isolated.
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Barrett KJ, Blinkova A, Arnold G. The bacteriophage P4 alpha gene is the structural gene for bacteriophage P4-induced RNA polymerase. J Virol 1983; 48:157-69. [PMID: 6887349 PMCID: PMC255332 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.48.1.157-169.1983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Two temperature-sensitive mutants of satellite phage P4 which do not synthesize P4 DNA at the nonpermissive temperature have been isolated. One of these phage is mutated in the P4 alpha gene. It complements a P4 delta mutant, but not a P4 alpha amber mutant; both mutants are phenotypically identical to alpha amber mutants in all properties studied. They synthesize P4 early proteins 1 and 2 as well as two additional P4-induced early proteins, 5 and 6, which are described here. P4 late proteins are not synthesized by these mutants and cannot be transactivated by helper phage P2. The mutants are unable to transactivate P2 late proteins from a P2 AB mutant. The P4 RNA polymerase activity which has been suggested to be involved in P4 DNA synthesis is not detected at the nonpermissive temperature. The P4 polymerase activity in partially purified extracts prepared from cells infected with the mutant at the permissive temperature is temperature sensitive. Reduced activity is found in vitro when these extracts are preincubated at 41 degrees C or assayed at temperatures higher than 37 degrees C. Thus, the P4 RNA polymerase is the product of the alpha gene. Temperature shift experiments show that the alpha gene product is required until late in the P4 cycle.
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Gibbs W, Eisen H, Calendar R. In vitro activation of bacteriophage P2 late gene expression by extracts from phage P4-infected cells. J Virol 1983; 47:392-8. [PMID: 6620459 PMCID: PMC255279 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.47.3.392-398.1983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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We have used a cell-free, DNA-dependent protein-synthesizing system to study the stimulation of phage P2 late gene expression by satellite phage P4. An activity is present in extracts prepared from P4-infected cells, which, when added to the in vitro system with P2 DNA template, stimulates the synthesis of a number of P2 proteins. These stimulated proteins include the major P2 capsid protein (N gene product) and a major component of the P2 phage tail (FII gene product). Extracts prepared from P4-infected cells are also able to stimulate the synthesis from P4 DNA of two low-molecular-weight proteins (18,500 and 17,000 Mr). The stimulating activity has no effect on the synthesis of proteins from lambda plac5 template. Extracts prepared from cells infected with P4 alpha amber mutants lack this stimulating activity.
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Ow DW, Ausubel FM. Conditionally replicating plasmid vectors that can integrate into the Klebsiella pneumoniae chromosome via bacteriophage P4 site-specific recombination. J Bacteriol 1983; 155:704-13. [PMID: 6307977 PMCID: PMC217740 DOI: 10.1128/jb.155.2.704-713.1983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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P4 is a satellite phage of P2 and is dependent on phage P2 gene products for virion assembly and cell lysis. Previously, we showed that a virulent mutant of phage P4 (P4 vir1) could be used as a multicopy, autonomously replicating plasmid vector in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae in the absence of the P2 helper. In addition to establishing lysogeny as a self-replicating plasmid, it has been shown that P4 can also lysogenize E. coli via site-specific integration into the host chromosome. In this study, we show that P4 also integrates into the K. pneumoniae chromosome at a specific site. In contrast to that in E. coli, however, site-specific integration in K. pneumoniae does not require the int gene of P4. We utilized the alternative modes of P4 lysogenization (plasmid replication or integration) to construct cloning vectors derived from P4 vir1 that could exist in either lysogenic mode, depending on the host strain used. These vectors carry an amber mutation in the DNA primase gene alpha, which blocks DNA replication in an Su- host and allows the selection of lysogenic strains with integrated prophages. In contrast, these vectors can be propagated as plasmids in an Su+ host where replication is allowed. To demonstrate the utility of this type of vector, we show that certain nitrogen fixation (nif) genes of K. pneumoniae, which otherwise inhibit nif gene expression when present on multicopy plasmids, do not exhibit inhibitory effects when introduced as merodiploids via P4 site-specific integration.
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A genetic map of satellite bacteriophage P4 has been constructed by means of standard multifactor crosses. The genetic map appears to be a circular permutation of the mature DNA physical map. In addition, a set of markers appear to be linked both to the left and to the right of the same gene alpha. These facts suggest that the P4 genetic map is circular. Since terminal redundancy and/or cyclic permutation are not known to be present in P4 mature DNA, the circularity of P4 genetic map may reflect the physical circularity of the molecules involved in the recombination process. The low frequency of recombination and the strong negative interference observed are in agreement with the above hypothesis.
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Geisselsoder J, Sedivy JM, Walsh RB, Goldstein R. Capsid structure of satellite phage P4 and its P2 helper. JOURNAL OF ULTRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH 1982; 79:165-73. [PMID: 7077742 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5320(82)90028-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Lindqvist BH. Recombination between satellite phage P4 and its helper P2. II. In vitro construction of a helper-independent P4: :P2 hybrid phage. Gene 1981; 14:243-50. [PMID: 6271625 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(81)90157-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Lindqvist BH. Recombination between satellite phage P4 and its helper P2. I. In vivo and in vitro construction of P4: :P2 hybrid satellite phage. Gene X 1981; 14:231-41. [PMID: 6271624 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(81)90156-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Liu LF, Davis JL, Calendar R. Novel topologically knotted DNA from bacteriophage P4 capsids: studies with DNA topoisomerases. Nucleic Acids Res 1981; 9:3979-89. [PMID: 6272191 PMCID: PMC327409 DOI: 10.1093/nar/9.16.3979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 178] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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DNA molecules isolated from bacteriophage P4 are mostly linear with cohesive ends capable of forming circular and concatemeric structures. In contrast, almost all DNA molecules isolated form P4 tailless capsids (heads) are monomeric DNA circles with their cohesive ends hydrogen-bonded. Different form simple DNA circles, such P4 head DNA circles contain topological knots. Gel electrophoretic and electronmicroscopic analyses of P4 head DNA indicate that the topological knots are highly complex and heterogeneous. Resolution of such complex knots has been studied with various DNA topoisomerases. The conversion of highly knotted P4 DNA to its simple circular form is demonstrated by type II DNA topoisomerases which catalyze the topological passing of two crossing double-stranded DNA segments [Liu, L. F., Liu, C. C. & Alberts, B. M. (1980) Cell, 19, 697-707]. The knotted P4 head DNA can be used in a sensitive assay for the detection of a type II DNA topoisomerase even in the presence of excess type I DNA topoisomerases.
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Calendar R, Ljungquist E, Deho G, Usher DC, Goldstein R, Youderian P, Sironi G, Six EW. Lysogenization by satellite phage P4. Virology 1981; 113:20-38. [PMID: 7023020 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(81)90133-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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