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SUBMITTER: Shen X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3488191 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Archives of virology 20120722 11
Terminase proteins are responsible for DNA recognition and initiation of DNA packaging in phages. We previously reported the genomic sequence of a temperate Pseudomonas aeruginosa phage, PaP3, and determined its precise integration site in the host bacterial chromosome. In this study, we present a detailed functional identification of the DNA packaging terminase for phage PaP3. The purified large subunit p03 was demonstrated to possess ATPase and nuclease activities, as well as the ability to bi ...[more]