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SUBMITTER: Lehnherr H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC103783 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lehnherr H H Bendtsen J D JD Preuss F F Ilyina T V TV
Journal of bacteriology 19991001 20
The genome of bacteriophage P1 harbors a gene coding for a 162-amino-acid protein which shows 66% amino acid sequence identity to the Escherichia coli single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB). The expression of the P1 gene is tightly regulated by P1 immunity proteins. It is completely repressed during lysogenic growth and only weakly expressed during lytic growth, as assayed by an ssb-P1/lacZ fusion construct. When cloned on an intermediate-copy-number plasmid, the P1 gene is able to suppress t ...[more]