Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · September 25, 2015
Rad50 and Mre11 form a complex involved in the detection and processing of DNA double strand breaks. Rad50 contains an anti-parallel coiled-coil with two absolutely conserved cysteine residues at its apex. These cysteine residues serve as a dimerization do ...
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Journal ArticleG3 (Bethesda) · April 15, 2015
The dnaQ gene of Escherichia coli encodes the ε subunit of DNA polymerase III, which provides the 3' → 5' exonuclease proofreading activity of the replicative polymerase. Prior studies have shown that loss of ε leads to high mutation frequency, partially c ...
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Journal ArticleDNA Repair (Amst) · April 2015
Pathways for tolerating and repairing DNA-protein crosslinks (DPCs) are poorly defined. We used transposon mutagenesis and candidate gene approaches to identify DPC-hypersensitive Escherichia coli mutants. DPCs were induced by azacytidine (aza-C) treatment ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2015
Expression of mutant EcoRII methyltransferase protein (M.EcoRII-C186A) in Escherichia coli leads to tightly bound DNA-protein complexes (TBCs), located sporadically on the chromosome rather than in tandem arrays. The mechanisms behind the lethality induced ...
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Journal ArticleMol Microbiol · January 2014
DNA replication in Escherichia coli is normally initiated at a single origin, oriC, dependent on initiation protein DnaA. However, replication can be initiated elsewhere on the chromosome at multiple ectopic oriK sites. Genetic evidence indicates that init ...
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Journal ArticleCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · November 1, 2013
Recent advances in the area of bacterial DNA damage responses are reviewed here. The SOS pathway is still the major paradigm of bacterial DNA damage response, and recent studies have clarified the mechanisms of SOS induction and key physiological roles of ...
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Journal ArticleGenetics · November 2013
The in vivo functions of the bacteriophage T4 Mre11/Rad50 (MR) complex (gp46/47) in double-strand-end processing, double-strand break repair, and recombination-dependent replication were investigated. The complex is essential for T4 growth, but we wanted t ...
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Journal ArticleCold Spring Harb Perspect Biol · November 1, 2013
Recent advances in the area of bacterial DNA damage responses are reviewed here. The SOS pathway is still the major paradigm of bacterial DNA damage response, and recent studies have clarified the mechanisms of SOS induction and key physiological roles of ...
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Chapter · February 15, 2013
For many years, homologous genetic recombination and DNA replication were studied in isolation from one another. However, beginning with studies of bacteriophages in the 1960s and 1970s, the possibility emerged that extensive DNA replication can sometimes ...
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Journal ArticleStructure · July 3, 2012
Helicases move on DNA via an ATP binding and hydrolysis mechanism coordinated by well-characterized helicase motifs. However, the translocation along single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) and the strand separation of double-stranded (dsDNA) may be loosely or tightly ...
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Journal ArticleJ Mol Biol · January 7, 2011
Bacteriophage T4 provides an important model system for studying the mechanism of homologous recombination. We have determined the crystal structure of the T4 UvsX recombinase, and the overall architecture and fold closely resemble those of RecA, including ...
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Journal ArticleVirol J · December 3, 2010
Bacteriophage T4 initiates DNA replication from specialized structures that form in its genome. Immediately after infection, RNA-DNA hybrids (R-loops) occur on (at least some) replication origins, with the annealed RNA serving as a primer for leading-stran ...
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Journal ArticleMol Microbiol · November 2010
Anticancer drug 5-azacytidine (aza-C) induces DNA-protein cross-links (DPCs) between cytosine methyltransferase and DNA as the drug inhibits methylation. We found that mutants defective in the tmRNA translational quality control system are hypersensitive t ...
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Journal ArticleEMBO Rep · April 2009
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Reactivation of stalled replication forks requires specialized mechanisms that can recognize the fork structure and promote downstream processing events. Fork regression has been implicated in several models of fork reactivation as a crucial processing ste ...
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Journal ArticleJ Bacteriol · August 2008
Quinolone antibacterial drugs such as nalidixic acid target DNA gyrase in Escherichia coli. These inhibitors bind to and stabilize a normally transient covalent protein-DNA intermediate in the gyrase reaction cycle, referred to as the cleavage complex. Sta ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · May 13, 2008
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Replication forks routinely encounter damaged DNA and tightly bound proteins, leading to fork stalling and inactivation. To complete DNA synthesis, it is necessary to remove fork-blocking lesions and reactivate stalled fork structures, which can occur by m ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · November 23, 2007
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The phage T4 UvsW protein has been shown to play a crucial role in the switch from origin-dependent to recombination-dependent replication in T4 infections through the unwinding of origin R-loop initiation intermediates. UvsW also functions with UvsX and U ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Res · September 1, 2007
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5-Azacytidine (aza-C) and its derivatives are cytidine analogues used for leukemia chemotherapy. The primary effect of aza-C is the prohibition of cytosine methylation, which results in covalent methyltransferase-DNA (MTase-DNA) adducts at cytosine methyla ...
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Journal ArticleMethods Enzymol · 2006
Replication forks can be stalled by tightly bound proteins, DNA damage, nucleotide deprivation, or defects in the replication machinery. It is now appreciated that processing of stalled replication forks is critical for completion of DNA replication and ma ...
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Journal ArticleGene · August 15, 2005
Nalidixic acid, the prototype antibacterial quinolone, induces the SOS response by a mechanism that requires the RecBCD nuclease/helicase. A key step inferred for this induction pathway is the conversion of a drug-induced gyrase cleavage complex into a DNA ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · June 3, 2005
Bacteriophage T4 initiates origin-dependent replication via an R-loop mechanism in vivo. During in vitro reactions, the phage-encoded gp59 stimulates loading of the replicative helicase, gp41, onto branched intermediates, including origin R-loops. However, ...
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Journal ArticleMol Microbiol · June 2005
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Antibacterial quinolones inhibit type II DNA topoisomerases by stabilizing covalent topoisomerase-DNA cleavage complexes, which are apparently transformed into double-stranded breaks by cellular processes such as replication. We used plasmid pBR322 and two ...
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Journal ArticleMol Microbiol · March 2005
In August, more than 350 conferees from 24 countries attended the ASM Conference on the New Phage Biology, in Key Biscayne, Florida. This meeting, also called the Phage Summit, was the first major international gathering in decades devoted exclusively to p ...
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Journal ArticleAnnu Rev Microbiol · 2005
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The processes of DNA replication and recombination are intertwined at many different levels. In diverse systems, extensive DNA replication can be triggered by genetic recombination, with assembly of a replication complex onto a D-loop recombination interme ...
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Journal ArticleJ Bacteriol · November 2004
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The bacterial SOS regulon is strongly induced in response to DNA damage from exogenous agents such as UV radiation and nalidixic acid. However, certain mutants with defects in DNA replication, recombination, or repair exhibit a partially constitutive SOS r ...
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Journal ArticleStructure · April 2004
In bacteriophage T4, the WXY system repairs DNA damage by a process that involves homologous recombination. This system comprises three proteins, the RecA-like recombination protein UvsX, a recombination mediator protein UvsY, and a helicase UvsW. Here we ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · April 29, 2003
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The cytotoxicity of several important antitumor drugs depends on formation of the covalent topoisomerase-DNA cleavage complex. However, cellular processes such as DNA replication are necessary to convert the cleavage complex into a cytotoxic lesion, but th ...
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Journal ArticleGenetics · November 2002
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The extensive chromosome replication (ECR) model of double-strand-break repair (DSBR) proposes that each end of a double-strand break (DSB) is repaired independently by initiating extensive semiconservative DNA replication after strand invasion into homolo ...
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Journal ArticleBiochemistry · June 25, 2002
Bacteriophage T4 provides a useful model system for dissecting the mechanism of action of antitumor agents that target type II DNA topoisomerases. Many of these inhibitors act by trapping the cleavage complex, a covalent complex of enzyme and broken DNA. P ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cell · March 2002
DNA recombination is now appreciated to be integral to DNA replication and cell survival. Recombination allows replication to successfully maneuver through the roadblocks of damaged or collapsed replication forks. The signals and controls that permit cells ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · July 17, 2001
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Double-strand break (DSB) repair and DNA replication are tightly linked in the life cycle of bacteriophage T4. Indeed, the major mode of phage DNA replication depends on recombination proteins and can be stimulated by DSBs. DSB-stimulated DNA replication i ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · July 17, 2001
Bacteriophage T4 uses two modes of replication initiation: origin-dependent replication early in infection and recombination-dependent replication at later times. The same relatively simple complex of T4 replication proteins is responsible for both modes o ...
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Journal ArticleGenetics · May 2001
Type II topoisomerase inhibitors are used to treat both tumors and bacterial infections. These inhibitors stabilize covalent DNA-topoisomerase cleavage complexes that ultimately cause lethal DNA damage. A functional recombinational repair apparatus decreas ...
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Journal ArticleGenetics · May 2001
Gene 61.5 of bacteriophage T4 has a unique role in gene expression. When this gene is mutated, mRNAs of many late genes are rapidly degraded, resulting in late-gene silencing. Here, we characterize an extragenic suppressor, ssf5, of a gene 61.5 mutation. s ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cell Biol · April 2001
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The UvsW protein of bacteriophage T4 is involved in many aspects of phage DNA metabolism, including repair, recombination, and recombination-dependent replication. UvsW has also been implicated in the repression of origin-dependent replication at late time ...
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Journal ArticleJ Bacteriol · April 2001
Bacteriophage T4 middle-mode transcription requires two phage-encoded proteins, the MotA transcription factor and AsiA coactivator, along with Escherichia coli RNA polymerase holoenzyme containing the sigma(70) subunit. A motA positive control (pc) mutant, ...
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Journal ArticleGenetics · March 2001
Recombination hotspots have previously been discovered in bacteriophage T4 by two different approaches, marker rescue recombination from heavily damaged phage genomes and recombination during co-infection by two undamaged phage genomes. The phage replicati ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cell · January 2001
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Bacteriophage T4 DNA replication proteins catalyze complete unidirectional replication of plasmids containing the T4 ori(uvsY) replication origin in vitro, beginning with a preformed R loop at the position of the origin R loop previously identified in vivo ...
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Journal ArticleGenetics · August 2000
Recombinational repair of double-strand breaks in tandemly repeated sequences often results in the loss of one or more copies of the repeat. The single-strand annealing (SSA) model for repair has been proposed to account for this nonconservative recombinat ...
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Journal ArticleTrends Biochem Sci · April 2000
Studies in the 1960s implied that bacteriophage T4 tightly couples DNA replication to genetic recombination. This contradicted the prevailing wisdom of the time, which staunchly supported recombination as a simple cut-and-paste process. More-recent investi ...
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Journal ArticleNature · March 2, 2000
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The bacterial SOS response to unusual levels of DNA damage has been recognized and studied for several decades. Pathways for re-establishing inactivated replication forks under normal growth conditions have received far less attention. In bacteria growing ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cell Biol · January 2000
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Many antitumor and antibacterial drugs inhibit DNA topoisomerases by trapping covalent enzyme-DNA cleavage complexes. Formation of cleavage complexes is important for cytotoxicity, but evidence suggests that cleavage complexes themselves are not sufficient ...
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Journal ArticleMol Cell · November 1998
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Two-dimensional gel analysis of the bacteriophage T4 ori(uvsY) region revealed a novel "comet" on the Y arc. This comet contains simple Y molecules in which the branch points map to the ori(uvsY) transcript region. The comet depends on the the origin and D ...
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Journal ArticleBiochim Biophys Acta · October 1, 1998
Bacteriophage T4 provides a simple model system for analyzing the mechanism of action of antitumor agents that inhibit DNA topoisomerases. The phage-encoded type II topoisomerase is sensitive to many of the same antitumor agents that inhibit mammalian type ...
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Journal ArticleBiochemistry · April 7, 1998
During bacteriophage T4 middle mode gene expression, the MotA transcription factor binds to T4 middle promoters at a -30 mot box consensus sequence to allow activation. Previous binding studies showed that MotA forms multiple gel-shifted complexes with DNA ...
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Journal ArticleCancer Res · March 15, 1998
Various antitumor and antibacterial agents target type II DNA topoisomerases, stabilizing a cleaved DNA reaction intermediate and thereby converting topoisomerase into a cellular poison. Two 4'-(9-acridinylamino)methanesulfon-m-anisidide (m-AMSA)-resistant ...
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Journal ArticleEMBO J · July 1, 1997
Bacteriophage T4 UvsW protein is involved in phage recombination, repair and the regulation of replication origins. Here, we provide evidence that UvsW functions as a helicase. First, expression of UvsW allows growth of an (otherwise inviable) Escherichia ...
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Journal ArticleEMBO J · April 15, 1997
Bacteriophage T4 encodes a transcription factor, MotA, that binds to the -30 region of middle-mode promoters and activates transcription by host RNA polymerase. We have solved the structure of the MotA activation domain to 2.2 A by X-ray crystallography, a ...
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Journal ArticleJ Mol Biol · March 14, 1997
The bacteriophage T4 replication origins ori(uvsY) and ori(34) each contain two distinct components: a T4 middle-mode promoter that is strictly required for replication and a downstream region of about 50 bp that is required for maximal levels of replicati ...
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Journal ArticleGenetics · August 1996
We investigated double-strand break (dsb) repair in bacteriophage T4 using a physical assay that involves a plasmid substrate with two inverted DNA segments. A dsb introduced into one repeat during a T4 infection induces efficient dsb repair using the seco ...
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Journal ArticleGenetics · July 1996
Many antitumor agents and antibiotics affect cells by interacting with type II topoisomerases, stabilizing a covalent enzyme-DNA complex. A pathway of recombination can apparently repair this DNA damage. In this study, transposon mutagenesis was used to id ...
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Journal ArticleAntimicrob Agents Chemother · June 1996
Pyrazinamide (PZA) is one of the three most important drugs for treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections. The antibacterial activity of PZA requires a bacterial enzyme, pyrazinamidase (PZAase), which hydrolyzes PZA to form pyrazinoic acid and amm ...
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Journal ArticleMol Microbiol · June 1996
The bacteriophage T4-encoded type II DNA topoisomerase is the major target for the antitumour agent m-AMSA (4'-(9-acridinylamino)methanesulphonm-ansidide) in phage-infected bacterial cells. Inhibition of the purified enzyme by m-AMSA results in formation o ...
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Journal ArticleNucleic Acids Res · June 1, 1996
The rolling circle DNA replication structures generated by the in vitro phage T4 replication system were analyzed using two-dimensional agarose gels. Replication structures were generated in the presence or absence of T4 primase (gp61), permitting the anal ...
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Journal ArticleJ Bacteriol · December 1995
We analyzed the mechanism of recombination-dependent DNA replication in bacteriophage T4-infected Escherichia coli using plasmids that have sequence homology to the infecting phage chromosome. Consistent with prior studies, a pBR322 plasmid, initially resi ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · December 6, 1994
The type II DNA topoisomerases are targets for a variety of chemotherapeutic agents, including the antibacterial quinolones and several families of antitumor drugs. These agents stabilize an enzyme-DNA cleavage complex that consists of the topoisomerase co ...
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Journal ArticleGenetics · December 1994
We have analyzed the integration of plasmids into the bacteriophage T4 genome via homologous recombination. As judged by genetic selection for a plasmid-borne marker, a mutation in phage gene uvsX or uvsY essentially blocked the integration of a plasmid wi ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · November 8, 1994
Type II topoisomerases are the targets of several classes of chemotherapeutic agents that stabilize an intermediate of the catalytic cycle with the enzyme covalently linked to cleaved DNA. We have used 3-azido-AMSA [4'-(3-azido-9-acridinylamino)methanesulf ...
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Journal ArticleAdv Pharmacol · 1994
The bacteriophage T4 provides a unique and informative system in which to study the mechanism of action of antitumor agents that inhibit type II DNA topoisomerases. The evolutionary conservation of inhibitor sensitivity provides a strong argument for a con ...
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Journal ArticleBiotechniques · January 1994
We have developed a method to produce a set of four duplex oligonucleotides, each with a different labeled base at a given position, from one template-primer combination. The template oligonucleotide is synthesized with a mixture of all four bases at the p ...
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Journal ArticleJ Mol Biol · July 5, 1993
Controlled protease cleavage experiments and N-terminal sequence analyses were used to show that the transcriptional activator MotA from bacteriophage T4 has a two-domain structure. The N and C-terminal domains have M(r) values of 10,300 and 11,800, respec ...
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Journal ArticleEMBO J · May 1993
We have analyzed the DNA sequence requirements for cleavage of a 30 bp oligonucleotide that contains a strong bacteriophage T4 type II topoisomerase site. A novel method was used to generate substrates with each of the four nucleotides at 10 positions surr ...
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Journal ArticleGene · January 15, 1993
We deleted the essential gene 24 from the genome of bacteriophage T4. The delta 24 phage is a conditional lethal mutant that can grow only when the host strain supplies the product of gene 24 in trans, or when the phage acquires a functional gene 24 by som ...
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Journal ArticleJ Virol · December 1992
Bacteriophage T4 DNA replication initiates from origins at early times of infection and from recombinational intermediates as the infection progresses. Plasmids containing cloned T4 origins replicate during T4 infection, providing a model system for studyi ...
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Journal ArticleJ Mol Biol · November 5, 1992
At least two bacteriophage T4 replication origins, ori(uvsY) and ori(34), contain a T4 middle-mode promoter that is necessary for origin function. We wanted to analyze the requirement of these two replication origins for the MotA protein, which is the phag ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · June 5, 1992
The bacteriophage T4-encoded MotA protein is critical for transcription from T4 middle-mode promoters. However, a direct interaction of this protein with a middle-mode promoter has not previously been demonstrated. We have cloned the motA gene and overexpr ...
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Journal ArticleMol Microbiol · May 1992
We have developed a system of transposon mutagenesis for bacteriophage T4. The transposon is a plasmid derivative of Tn5 which contains the essential T4 gene 24, permitting a direct selection for transposition events into a gene 24-deleted phage. The trans ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · July 15, 1991
Bacteriophage T4 recombination "hotspots" were first detected by the rescue of genetic markers from UV-irradiated phage particles. These hotspots have since been detected following treatments that yield other forms of DNA damage, and at least one is active ...
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Journal ArticleGenetics · March 1991
Acridine-induced frameshift mutations in bacteriophage T4 occur at the precise location in the DNA at which acridines stimulate DNA cleavage by the T4-encoded type II topoisomerase in vitro. The mutations are duplications or deletions that begin precisely ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · November 25, 1990
Numerous antitumor and antibacterial agents inhibit type II DNA topoisomerases, yielding, in each case, a complex of enzyme covalently bound to cleaved DNA. We are investigating the mechanism of inhibitor action by using the type II DNA topoisomerase of ba ...
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Journal ArticleJ Mol Biol · August 5, 1990
The uvsW gene of bacteriophage T4 is involved in many aspects of phage DNA metabolism, including replication, recombination and repair. To approach the function of uvsW, the structure and expression of the uvsW gene were first explored. Molecular analyses ...
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Journal ArticleMol Gen Genet · March 1990
Bacteriophage T4 provides a simple model system in which to examine the mechanism of action of antitumor agents that have been proposed to attack type II DNA topoisomerases. Prior results demonstrated that T4 type II DNA topoisomerase is the target of anti ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · February 1989
The mammalian type II DNA topoisomerase has been proposed to be the intracellular target of a variety of antitumor agents, including m-AMSA [4'-(9-acridinylamino)-methanesulfon-m-anisidide]. Because the bacteriophage T4-encoded topoisomerase resembles the ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · August 15, 1988
The replication of plasmids containing fragments of the T4 genome, but no phage replication origins, was analyzed as a possible model for phage secondary (recombination-dependent) replication initiation. The replication of such plasmids after T4 infection ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · August 15, 1988
A bacteriophage T4 insertion/substitution vector system has been developed as a means of introducing in vitro generated mutations into the T4 chromosome. The insertion/substitution vector is a 2638-base pair plasmid containing the pBR322 origin of replicat ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · August 15, 1988
The DNA sequence requirements of two T4 tertiary replication origins have been characterized by a deletion analysis of origin-containing plasmids. Maximal replication of each origin-containing plasmid required both an intact gpmotA-dependent middle-mode pr ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · August 15, 1988
Tertiary initiation of bacteriophage T4 DNA replication is resistant to the RNA polymerase inhibitor rifampicin and apparently involved in the activity of recombination hot spots in the T4 genome (Kreuzer, K. N., and Alberts, B. M. (1985) Proc. Natl. Acad. ...
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Journal ArticleJ Mol Biol · April 20, 1988
The type II topoisomerase of bacteriophage T4 is a central determinant of the frequency and specificity of acridine-induced frameshift mutations. Acridine-induced frameshift mutagenesis is specifically reduced in a mutant defective in topoisomerase activit ...
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Journal ArticleJ Mol Biol · March 20, 1986
We have developed a defective phage system for the isolation and analysis of phage T4 replication origins based on the T4-mediated transduction of plasmid pBR322. During the initial infection of a plasmid-containing cell, recombinant plasmids with T4 DNA i ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · May 1985
Plasmid transduction mediated by bacteriophage T4 has been used to study putative T4 DNA replication origins cloned as inserts in the Escherichia coli plasmid pBR322. Two particular inserts from the T4 genome allow high-frequency plasmid transduction, sugg ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · April 25, 1984
The site specificity of bacteriophage T4-induced type II DNA topoisomerase action on double-stranded DNA has been explored by studying the sites where DNA cleavages are induced by the enzyme. Oxolinic acid addition increases the frequency at which phi X174 ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · April 25, 1984
The bacteriophage T4-induced type II DNA topoisomerase has been shown previously to make a reversible double strand break in DNA double helices. In addition, this enzyme is shown here to bind tightly and to cleave single-stranded DNA molecules. The evidenc ...
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Journal ArticleCell · May 1980
We have discovered that DNA gyrase interlocks duplex DNA circles to form catenanes and resolves catenanes into component monomers. The reactions were inhibited by novobiocin and oxolinic acid and required ATP, Mg++ and spermidine. DNA sequence homology is ...
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Journal ArticleJ Bacteriol · November 1979
Temperature-sensitive nalA mutants of Escherichia coli have been used to investigate the structure and functions of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) gyrase. Extracts of one such mutant (nalA43) had thermosensitive DNA gyrase subunit A activity but normal gyrase ...
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Journal ArticleMol Gen Genet · November 29, 1978
Defective lambda transducing phages for the nalA region of the Escherichia coli chromosome were isolated from a lysogen in which lambda is inserted in the nearby glpT gene. The three classes of transducing phages designated lambdanrdA, lambdaubiG, and lamb ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · November 1977
A target protein for nalidixic and oxolinic acids in Escherichia coli, the nalA gene product (Pnal), was purified to homogeneity as judged by gel electrophoresis, using an in vitro complementation assay. It is a dimer of identical 110,000-dalton subunits. ...
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Journal ArticleGenetics · November 1975
A fine structure map of the phoR region of E. coli, mutations of which affect the rate of alkaline phosphatase synthesis, was constructed by Hfr X F- crosses. Mutations causing three different phenotypes (previously reported as phoRa, phoRb, phoRc (Garen a ...
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