By Allan Campbell (auth.), Richard Calendar (eds.)

It has been 10 years because Plenum integrated a chain of studies on bacte­ riophages, in entire Virology. Chapters in that sequence contained physical-genetic maps yet little or no DNA series details. Now the full DNA series is understood for a few phages, and the se­ quences for others will quickly stick with. up to now 10 years phages have come into universal use as reagents: A phage for cloning unmarried copies of genes, and Ml3 for cloning and DNA sequencing by means of the dideoxy termi­ country approach. additionally in the course of that interval using replacement sigma fac­ tors by means of RNA polymerase has turn into demonstrated for SPOl and T4. This appears a generic mechanism in micro organism, because it has been implicated in sporulation, warmth surprise reaction, and legislation of nitro­ gen metabolism. The keep an eye on of transcription via the binding of A phage CII protein to the -35 area of the promoter is a up to date discovering, and it isn't recognized how frequent this mechanism will be. This swift growth made me wanting to solicit a brand new sequence of experiences. those contributions are of 2 kinds. all the first kind offers with a topic that's exemplified by means of many types of phages; chapters of this sort will be helpful in educating complex classes. Chapters of the second one variety offer complete images of person phage households and may supply invaluable details to be used in making plans experiments.

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The distal half of the fiber is composed of a dimer of gene 37 protein. Its structure has been studied in some detail, and the gp37 is in an extended conformation with its C terminus distal to the baseplate (Beckendorf, 1973). , 1979). Secondary structure predictions of gp37 show a high degree of 13 structure (Oliver and Crowther, 1981; P. Arscott, personal communication). Perhaps surprisingly, the amino acid sequence of gp37 does not show any very regular repeating pattern, but it does contain six Gly-X-His-Y-His motifs, and Michel et a1.

Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions Of course, similar cooperative action could occur between nucleic acid and protein molecules to create assembly reactive sites. , 1976).

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