Physical mapping and cloning of bacteriophage T4 anti-restriction endonuclease gene.

AUTOR(ES)

Dharmalingam, K

RESUMO

We have proposed that the ability of T4 to produce non-glucosylated progeny after a single cycle of growth on a galU rglA rglB+ mutant of Escherichia coli is due to the initiation of the rglB+ function by a phage-coded, anti-restriction endonuclease protein. Based on this hypothesis, we screened T4 deletion mutants for failure to give a burst in this host. The absence of an arn gene in phage mutants lacking the 55.5- to 58.4-kilobase region is verified by their inability to protect secondary infecting non-glucosylated phage from rglB-controlled cleavage. A functional arn gene was cloned on plasmid pBR325, and the 0.8-kilobase insert DNA was shown to be homologous to the DNA missing in the arn deletion phage.

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