Genetical and Structural Analysis of a Group of Lambda Ilv and Lambda Rho Transducing Phages

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Journal Mol Gen Genet

Specialties Genetics
Molecular Biology

Date 1981 Jan 1

PMID 6272063

Citations 14

Authors

M Uzan

R Favre

E Gallay

L Caro

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Abstract

Eight lambda ilv C transducing phages generated from E. coli K12 secondary site lysogens have been analysed genetically and physically. Two of them carry, in addition, the rho gene and its promotor region, but not the cya gene. The ilv O 603 mutation has been located between ilv G and ilv E. Electrophoretic analysis of the proteins synthesized by these phages in a system of UV irradiated cells allowed us to assign molecular weights of 55000 and 66000 daltons to the ilv C and the ilv D gene products, respectively, and to show that an ilv G-encoded polypeptide of 60000 daltons is made from an ilv O- but not from an ilv O+ phage. The expression of the ilv G gene is discussed in the light of the recent finding of a promoter-attenuator region lying upstream to ilv G. Finally, we have found that one of the lambda ilv phages does not have the classical structure of a transducing phage.

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