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The role of the bacteriophage-t4 gene-32 protein in homologous pairing

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authors

  • Kodadek, Thomas

publication date

  • December 1990

journal

  • Journal of Biological Chemistry  Journal

abstract

  • The gene 32 protein of the bacteriophage T4 is required for efficient genetic recombination in infected Eschericia coli cells and strongly stimulates in vitro pairing catalyzed by the phage uvsX protein, a RecA-like strand transferase. This helix-destabilizing factor is known to bind tightly and cooperatively to single-stranded DNA and to interact specifically with the uvsX protein as well as other phage gene products. However, its detailed role in homologous pairing is not well understood. I show here that when the efficiency of uvsX protein-mediated pairing is examined at different gene 32 protein and duplex DNA concentrations, a correlation between the two is found, suggesting that the two interact in a functionally important manner during the reaction. These and other data are consistent with a model in which the gene 32 protein binds to the strand displaced from the recipient duplex during pairing, thereby stabilizing the heteroduplex product. An alternative model in which the gene 32 protein replaces UvsX on the invading strand, thereby freeing the strand transferase to bind to the displaced strand, is also considered.

subject areas

  • DNA, Viral
  • DNA-Binding Proteins
  • Escherichia coli
  • Kinetics
  • Models, Biological
  • Recombination, Genetic
  • T-Phages
  • Viral Proteins
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0021-9258

PubMed ID

  • 2250001
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 20966

end page

  • 20969

volume

  • 265

issue

  • 34

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