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Feiss M, Young R, Ramsey J, Adhya S, Georgopoulos C, Hendrix RW, Hatfull GF, Gilcrease EB, Casjens SR. Hybrid Vigor: Importance of Hybrid λ Phages in Early Insights in Molecular Biology. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2022; 86:e0012421. [PMID: 36165780 PMCID: PMC9799177 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.00124-21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Laboratory-generated hybrids between phage λ and related phages played a seminal role in establishment of the λ model system, which, in turn, served to develop many of the foundational concepts of molecular biology, including gene structure and control. Important λ hybrids with phages 21 and 434 were the earliest of such phages. To understand the biology of these hybrids in full detail, we determined the complete genome sequences of phages 21 and 434. Although both genomes are canonical members of the λ-like phage family, they both carry unsuspected bacterial virulence gene types not previously described in this group of phages. In addition, we determined the sequences of the hybrid phages λ imm21, λ imm434, and λ h434 imm21. These sequences show that the replacements of λ DNA by nonhomologous segments of 21 or 434 DNA occurred through homologous recombination in adjacent sequences that are nearly identical in the parental phages. These five genome sequences correct a number of errors in published sequence fragments of the 21 and 434 genomes, and they point out nine nucleotide differences from Sanger's original λ sequence that are likely present in most extant λ strains in laboratory use today. We discuss the historical importance of these hybrid phages in the development of fundamental tenets of molecular biology and in some of the earliest gene cloning vectors. The 434 and 21 genomes reinforce the conclusion that the genomes of essentially all natural λ-like phages are mosaics of sequence modules from a pool of exchangeable segments.
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- Michael Feiss
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- Center for Phage Technology, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, College Station, Texas, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
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- Center for Phage Technology, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, College Station, Texas, USA
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
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- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Center for Cancer Research, The National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Pittsburgh Bacteriophage Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Pittsburgh Bacteriophage Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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- Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Pathology Department, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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Casjens SR, Hendrix RW. Bacteriophage lambda: Early pioneer and still relevant. Virology 2015; 479-480:310-30. [PMID: 25742714 PMCID: PMC4424060 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2015.02.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2014] [Revised: 01/13/2015] [Accepted: 02/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Molecular genetic research on bacteriophage lambda carried out during its golden age from the mid-1950s to mid-1980s was critically important in the attainment of our current understanding of the sophisticated and complex mechanisms by which the expression of genes is controlled, of DNA virus assembly and of the molecular nature of lysogeny. The development of molecular cloning techniques, ironically instigated largely by phage lambda researchers, allowed many phage workers to switch their efforts to other biological systems. Nonetheless, since that time the ongoing study of lambda and its relatives has continued to give important new insights. In this review we give some relevant early history and describe recent developments in understanding the molecular biology of lambda's life cycle.
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- Sherwood R Casjens
- Division of Microbiology and Immunology, Pathology Department, University of Utah School of Medicine, Emma Eccles Jones Medical Research Building, 15 North Medical Drive East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA; Biology Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
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Deichelbohrer I, Messer W, Trautner TA. Genome of Bacillus subtilis Bacteriophage SPP1: Structure and Nucleotide Sequence of pac, the Origin of DNA Packaging. J Virol 2010; 42:83-90. [PMID: 16789222 PMCID: PMC256047 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.42.1.83-90.1982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The DNA of Bacillus subtilis bacteriophage SPP1 is terminally redundant and partially circularly permuted. To explain these parameters, we followed the Streisinger-Botstein models of phage maturation and assumed that packaging of SPP1 DNA begins at a unique genomic site ("pac") and proceeds sequentially from there. We describe the sequence of about 1,000 nucleotides surrounding pac. This together with size determinations of small, pac-terminated restriction fragments has revealed heterogeneity of the natural pac ends of SPP1 DNA. Such ends fell in each DNA strand into a region of five to seven nucleotides. However, within this range more than 50% of all molecules terminated with defined cytosines on both strands, generating a 3' protruding terminus. The nucleotide sequence of the DNA segment surrounding pac did not reveal any features which would distinguish this region.
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- I Deichelbohrer
- Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Abteilung Trautner, D-1000 Berlin 33, Germany
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An ATP-powered DNA translocation machine encapsidates the viral genome in the large dsDNA bacteriophages. The essential components include the empty shell, prohead, and the packaging enzyme, terminase. During translocation, terminase is docked on the prohead's portal protein. The translocation ATPase and the concatemer-cutting endonuclease reside in terminase. Remarkably, terminases, portal proteins, and shells of tailed bacteriophages and herpes viruses show conserved features. These DNA viruses may have descended from a common ancestor. Terminase's ATPase consists of a classic nucleotide binding fold, most closely resembling that of monomeric helicases. Intriguing models have been proposed for the mechanism of dsDNA translocation, invoking ATP hydrolysis-driven conformational changes of portal or terminase powering DNA motion. Single-molecule studies show that the packaging motor is fast and powerful. Recent advances permit experiments that can critically test the packaging models. The viral genome translocation mechanism is of general interest, given the parallels between terminases, helicases, and other motor proteins.
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- Venigalla B Rao
- Department of Biology, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. 20064, USA.
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Fortunately, I began research in 1950 when the basic concepts of microbial genetics could be explored experimentally. I began with bacteriophage lambda and tried to establish the colinearity of its linkage map with its DNA molecule. My students and I worked out the regulation of lambda repressor synthesis for the establishment and maintenance of lysogeny. We also investigated the proteins responsible for assembly of the phage head. Using cell extracts, we discovered how to package DNA inside the head in vitro. Around 1972, I began to use molecular genetics to understand the developmental biology of Myxococcus xanthus. In particular, I wanted to learn how myxococcus builds its multicellular fruiting body within which it differentiates spores. We identified two cell-to-cell signals used to coordinate development. We have elucidated, in part, the signal transduction pathway for C-signal that directs the morphogenesis of a fruiting body.
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- Dale Kaiser
- Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
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The study of the bacteriophage lambda has been critical to the discipline of molecular biology. It was the source of key discoveries in the mechanisms of, among other processes, gene regulation, recombination, and transcription initiation and termination. We trace here the events surrounding these findings and draw on the recollections of the participants. We show how a particular atmosphere of interactions among creative scientists yielded spectacular insights into how living things work.
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- Max E Gottesman
- Institute of Cancer Research, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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In the terminus-generating (ter) reaction of phage lambda, the phage enzyme terminase catalyzes the production of staggered nicks within the cohesive-end nicking site (cosN). Although the two nicks are related by a rotational symmetry axis that bisects cosN, the in vitro ter reaction is strikingly asymmetric at the nucleotide level. Nicking of the lambda r strand precedes nicking of the I strand. Furthermore, when the two nicking reactions are uncoupled, they have different nucleotide cofactor requirements. ATP plays critical roles during cos cleavage: First, nicking of both DNA strands is stimulated by the addition of ATP. Second, ATP is required for the correct specificity of r-strand nicking since, in the absence of nucleotide, the r-strand nick is shifted 8 bases to the left. Studies with nonhydrolyzable analogs indicate that ATP hydrolysis is not required for these functions. However, after the two nicks are made, terminase catalyzes a disengagement of the cohered ends in a reaction that requires ATP hydrolysis.
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Rao RN, Richardson MA, Kuhstoss S. Cosmid shuttle vectors for cloning and analysis of Streptomyces DNA. Methods Enzymol 1987; 153:166-98. [PMID: 2828841 DOI: 10.1016/0076-6879(87)53053-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The icosahedral shape of the lambda head suggests a 12-subunit structure of the collapsed DNA inside. The internal space of an icosahedron can optimally be filled by 12 geometrical figures each of which is a combination of a cone and more than half of a sphere. Such a pear-like geometrical figure is, in fact, formed spontaneously by DNA collapsed under certain conditions in vitro (Eickbush & Moudrianakis, 1978). It is proposed that a pear-like structure formed by about 4000 bp is the fundamental structural subunit of packaged lambda DNA. A possible arrangement of the 12 subunits inside the phage head relative to the tail is discussed. We hypothesize that lambda DNA is packaged into proheads in its condensed form. A driving force promoting the DNA translocation could be an ATP-dependent activity of a DNA topoisomerase (gpA/gpNu1), which would induce further reduction in the linking number of the already strongly negatively supercoiled DNA by rotation of one DNA strand around the other. The additional strain accumulated at the end of DNA molecule bound by the topoisomerase beyond a critical value would lead to regional collapse of the viral genome into a pear-like structure.
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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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Frackman S, Siegele DA, Feiss M. A functional domain of bacteriophage lambda terminase for prohead binding. J Mol Biol 1984; 180:283-300. [PMID: 6096564 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(84)80005-4] [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: 01/18/2023]
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Terminase is a multifunctional protein complex involved in DNA packaging during bacteriophage lambda assembly. Terminase is made of gpNul and gpA, the products of the phage lambda Nu1 and A genes. Early during DNA packaging terminase binds to lambda DNA to form a complex called complex I. Terminase is required for the binding of proheads by complex I to form a DNA: terminase: prohead complex known as complex II. Terminase remains associated with the DNA during encapsidation. The other known role for terminase in packaging is the production of staggered nicks in the DNA thereby generating the cohesive ends. Lambdoid phage 21 has cohesive ends identical to those of lambda. The head genes of lambda and 21 show partial sequence homology and are analogous in structure, function and position. The terminases of lambda and 21 are not interchangeable. At least two actions of terminase are involved in this specificity: (1) DNA binding; (2) prohead binding. The 1 and 2 genes at the left end of the 21 chromosome were identified as coding for the 21 terminase. gp1 and gp2 are analogous to gpNu1 and gpA, respectively. We have isolated a phage, lambda-21 hybrid 33, which is the product of a crossover between lambda and 21 within the terminase genes. Lambda-21 hybrid 33 DNA and terminase have phage 21 packaging specificity, as determined by complementation and helper packaging studies. The terminase of lambda-21 hybrid 33 requires lambda proheads for packaging. We have determined the position at which the crossover between lambda DNA and 21 DNA occurred to produce the hybrid phage. Lambda-21 hybrid 33 carries the phage 21 1 gene and a hybrid phage 2/A gene. Sequencing of lambda-21 hybrid 33 DNA shows that it encodes a protein that is homologous at the carboxy terminus with the 38 amino acids of the carboxy terminus of lambda gpA; the remainder of the protein is homologous to gp2. The results of these studies define a specificity domain for prohead binding at the carboxy terminus of gpA.
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Bear SE, Court DL, Friedman DI. An accessory role for Escherichia coli integration host factor: characterization of a lambda mutant dependent upon integration host factor for DNA packaging. J Virol 1984; 52:966-72. [PMID: 6238175 PMCID: PMC254621 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.52.3.966-972.1984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Bacteriophage lambda grows lytically on Escherichia coli defective for integration host factor, a protein involved in lambda site-specific recombination and the regulation of gene expression. We report the characterization of a mutant, lambda cos154, that, unlike wild-type lambda, is defective for growth in integration host factor-defective E. coli. The cis-dominant mutation in lambda cos154 is a single base pair change in a region of hyphenated dyad symmetry close to the lambda left cohesive end; this mutation prevents DNA packaging. We propose the following two alternative roles for this site in lambda DNA packaging: (i) to bind an E. coli accessory protein required in the absence of integration host factor or (ii) to bind the phage-encoded terminase protein that is essential for DNA packaging.
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In vivo, lambda DNA cannot be cleaved at cos (matured) if proheads are not present; in vitro, however, cos cleavage readily takes place in the absence of proheads. In order to investigate this paradox, we have constructed plasmids that synthesize lambda terminase in vivo upon induction. The plasmids also contain cos at the normal position, about 190 bp upstream of lambda gene Nul. One of the plasmids, pFM3, produces levels of terminase comparable to those found after phage induction. If cells carrying pFM3 are thermoinduced, almost 100% of the intracellular plasmid DNA has a double-strand interruption at or near cos. Since the only lambda genes that pFM3 carries are Nul, A, W and B, this in vivo cleavage is occurring in the absence of proheads. Previous failure to observe lambda maturation with phages carrying prohead mutations may be due to exonucleolytic degradation of the unprotected DNA ends, a different DNA topology or compartmentalization, or terminase inhibition in the absence of prohead by the product of another lambda gene that maps to the right of gene B.
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The bacteriophage lambda terminase. Partial purification and preliminary characterization of properties. J Biol Chem 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)43907-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Bacteriophage lambda DNA packaging in vitro. The involvement of the lambda FI gene product, single-strand DNA, and a novel lambda-directed protein in the packaging reaction. J Biol Chem 1982. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)34656-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Laski F, Jackson EN. Maturation cleavage of bacteriophage P22 DNA in the absence of DNA packaging. J Mol Biol 1982; 154:565-79. [PMID: 6283090 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(82)80015-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Sumner-Smith M, Becker A, Gold M. DNA packaging in the lambdoid phages: the role of lambda genes Nu1 and A. Virology 1981; 111:642-6. [PMID: 6264675 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(81)90363-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Murialdo H, Fife WL, Becher A, Feiss M, Yochem J. Bacteriophage lambda DNA maturation. The functional relationships among the products of genes Nul, A and FI. J Mol Biol 1981; 145:375-404. [PMID: 6455531 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(81)90211-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Fisher R, Krizsanovich-Williams K, Feiss M. Construction and characterization of a cohesive end site mutant of bacteriophage lambda. Virology 1980; 107:144-59. [PMID: 6449778 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(80)90280-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The construction of a cosmid, MUA-3, designed for the convenient cloning of eukaryotic DNA segments up to 48 kb in length is described. The cosmid contains all of the plasmid pBR322 with approx. 400 bases of lambda DNA, including the cohesive end site, inserted at the pBR322 PstI endonuclease recognition site. Methods for using this vector to construct several types of Drosophila melanogaster genomic DNA libraries are given, and libraries made by these methods are characterized. A sheared Drosophila DNA-EcoRI linker library is shown to stably maintain average Drosophila DNA inserts of over 40 kb and up to 48 kb, and the efficiency of producing clones by a partial restriction and ligation method is shown to be over 3 X 10(5) clones/microgram of Drosophila DNA.
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Physical and genetic mapping of deletion mutations has been correlated with the available molecular sizes of the lambda gene products and the DNA base sequence to construct a comprehensive molecular map of the phage lambda genome. The physical length of the DNA making up the left arm from the cos site through gene J is not sufficient to account in a nonoverlapping manner for all the proteins of the sizes reported to be coded, especially in the Nu1--C region. In the right arm all the coding capacity has not been accounted for, and it appears to be oversaturated only in the gam-ral region. The positions of several IS and Tn elements, and of restriction endonuclease cleavage sites are specified.
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Bowden DW, Calendar R. Maturation of bacteriophage P2 DNA in vitro: A complex, site-specific system for DNA cleavage. J Mol Biol 1979; 129:1-18. [PMID: 448732 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(79)90055-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Feiss M, Siegele DA. Packaging of the bacteriophage lambda chromosome: dependence of cos cleavage on chromosome length. Virology 1979; 92:190-200. [PMID: 419690 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(79)90224-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Feiss M, Fisher RA, Siegele DA, Nichols BP, Donelson JE. Packaging of the bacteriophage lambda chromosome: a role for base sequences outside cos. Virology 1979; 92:56-67. [PMID: 419695 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(79)90214-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Benchimol S, Becker A, Murialdo H, Gold M. The role of the bacteriophage lambda Fl gene product during phage head assembly in vitro. Virology 1978; 91:205-21. [PMID: 369114 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(78)90370-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Thomas JO, Sternberg N, Weisberg R. Altered arrangement of the DNA in injection-defective lambda bacteriophage. J Mol Biol 1978; 123:149-61. [PMID: 355644 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(78)90318-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Umene K, Shimada K, Takagi Y. Packaging of ColE1 DNA having a lambda phage cohesive end site. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1978; 159:39-45. [PMID: 345083 DOI: 10.1007/bf00401746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The mechanism of lambda phage-mediated transduction of hybrid colicin E1 DNAs of various lengths was studied, and factors influencing the formation of these transducing particles were investigated. The results were as follows: 1. The presence of a cohesive end site of lambda phage (coslambda) on colicin E1 DNA was essential for packaging of the DNA. 2. Packaging of colicin E1 DNAs, which carry coslambda with molecular sizes corresponding to 68% of that of lambda phage DNA, was observed in the absence of all known recombination functions of E. coli K-12 and of lambda phage. 3. Hybrid colicin E1 DNAs having coslambda with molecular sizes corresponding to 28% of that of lambda phage DNA were packaged within lambda phage particles as trimers; hybrid DNAs with coslambda of 40 and 47% of the length of lambda phage DNA were packaged as dimers; and those with molecular sizes of 68% of that of lambda phage DNA were packaged mostly as monomers. These results demonstrated that two factors are essential for the packaging of DNAs within lambda phage particles; the presence of coslambda on the DNA molecule and an appropriate size of DNA.
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Sternberg N, Weisberg R. Packaging of coliphage lambda DNA. II. The role of the gene D protein. J Mol Biol 1977; 117:733-59. [PMID: 609100 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(77)90067-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Sternberg N, Weisberg R. Packaging of coliphage lambda DNA. I. The role of the cohesive end site and the gene A protein. J Mol Biol 1977; 117:717-31. [PMID: 609099 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(77)90066-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Becker A, Murialdo H, Gold M. Studies on an in vitro system for the packaging and maturation of phage lambda DNA. Virology 1977; 78:277-90. [PMID: 860404 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(77)90099-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Veltkamp E, Pols K, van Ee JH, Nijkamp HJ. Replication of the bacteriocinogenic plasmid Clo DF13: action of the plasmid protein cloacin DF13 on Clo DF13 DNA. J Mol Biol 1976; 106:75-95. [PMID: 787544 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(76)90301-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Dawson P, Hohn B, Hohn T, Skalka A. Functional empty capsid precursors produced by lambda mutant defective for late lambda DNA replication. J Virol 1976; 17:576-83. [PMID: 1255849 PMCID: PMC515448 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.17.2.576-583.1976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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This report described lambda phage morphogenesis in a mutant system in which the normal pathways for late phage DNA (concatemer) synthesis are blocked and early (monomeric circular) DNA replication products accumulate. As shown earlier (Dawson et al., 1975) under these conditions, late proteins are synthesized and assembled into headlike structures. These structures that accumulate in the mutant are empty, suggesting the monomeric circular DNA molecules cannot be encapsulated. The present results show that crude extracts of induced lysogens of the mutant contain the complementation activities of preheads (the empty precursors to DNA-filled heads), tails, and DNA terminigenerating protein(s). Sucrose gradients of these crude extracts yield fractions containing prehead activity in relative amounts expected from the concentration of late proteins and empty structures. Furthermore, the proteins present in these fractions coelectrophorese with the known capsid proteins of preheads, and empty structures that look like preheads are observed in electron microscope examination of samples from the fractions. Based on our biological, biochemical, and electron microscope analyses, we conclude that the empty structures that accumulate in the induced lysogen of the mutant are normal preheads, which could become filled phage heads if DNA of the appropriate structure (i.e., "late DNA") were available.
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Bastia D, Sueoka N. Studies on the late replication of phage lambda: rolling-circle replication of the wild type and a partially suppressed strain, Oam29 Pam80. J Mol Biol 1975; 98:305-20. [PMID: 1195390 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(75)80120-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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McMacken R, Kessler S, Boyce R. Strand breakage of coliphage lambda DNA supercoils in infected lysogens. I. Genetic and biochemical evidence for two types of nicking processes. Virology 1975; 66:356-71. [PMID: 1098274 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(75)90209-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Wu R, Bambara R, Jay E. Recent advances in DNA sequence analysis. CRC CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY 1975; 2:455-512. [PMID: 164328 DOI: 10.3109/10409237509102550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Abstract
An in vitro assay for measuring the activity of the phage lambda A-gene product has been developed. The assay is based on the observation that A-donor extracts complement A minus extracts for packaging of exogenous immature lambda DNA into phage particles. A partial purification of the A-gene product activity using this assay is presented. A method is suggested by which this A protein-dependent in vitro system might be manipulated to analyze the mechanism of reforming the lambda cohesive termini during chromosome assimilation into phage precursors.
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Weil J, deWein N, Casale A. Morphogenesis of lambda with genomes containing excess DNA: functional particles containing 12 and 15 per cent excess DNA. Virology 1975; 63:352-66. [PMID: 1114696 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(75)90309-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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