Electron Microscope Studies of Heteroduplex DNA from a Deletion Mutant of Bacteriophage ϕX-174
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- 1 July 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 69 (7) , 1948-1952
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.69.7.1948
Abstract
A population of double-stranded replicative form of DNA molecules from bacteriophage ϕX-174 carrying a deletion of about 9% of the wild-type DNA has been discovered in a sample cultivated under conditions where the phage lysozyme gene is nonessential. The structures of deleted monomers, dimers, and trimers were studied by the electron microscope heteroduplex method. The dimers and trimers are head-to-tail repeats of the deleted monomers. Some interesting examples of the dynamical phenomenon of branch migration in vitro have been observed in heteroduplexes of deleted dimer and trimer strands with undeleted monomer viral strands from the wild-type phage.Keywords
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