Template requirements for initiation of phage phi 29 DNA replication in vitro.
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 81 (1) , 80-84
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.81.1.80
Abstract
The template requirements for the formation of the phage .vphi.29 protein p3-dAMP initiation complex in vitro have been studied. The initiation reaction requires the parental protein p3 but not an intact DNA molecule. Protein p3-containing fragments from the left- or right-hand DNA ends were active as template for formation of the initiation complex provided they had a minimal size: a 26-base-pair-long fragment was active whereas a 10-base-pair-long one was essentially inactive. The activity of the latter was restored by ligation of an unspecific DNA sequence. .vphi.29 DNA internal fragments, as well as denatured .vphi.29 DNA, were inactive as template for the initiation reaction. The terminal protein-DNA complex isolated from Bacillus phage .vphi.15 was active in formation of the .vphi.29 p3-dAMP complex; the protein-DNA complex isolated from Bacillus phage GA-1 or from the pneumococcal phage Cp-1, both with a morphology simlar to that of phage .vphi.29, as well as that obtained from adenovirus, were inactive.This publication has 40 references indexed in Scilit:
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