DNA Synthesis in Pseudomonas Acidovorans Infected with Mutants of Bacteriophage Phi W-14 Defective in the Synthesis of Alpha-putrescinylthymine

Overview

Journal J Virol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Date 1984 Dec 1

PMID 6492260

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Authors

P B Miller

R A Warren

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Abstract

Normal levels of the hypermodified pyrimidine, alpha-putrescinylthymine, which is formed from hydhydroxymethyluracil at the polynucleotide level (Maltman et al., J. Virol. 34:354-359, 1984), are not required in bacteriophage luminal diameterW-14 DNA for the DNA to serve as a replicative template in luminal diameterW-14-infected cells.

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