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Bacteriophage PRD1 contains a labile receptor-binding structure at each vertex.
Journal of molecular biology - 20 Aug 1999
Rydman P S, Caldentey J, Butcher S J, Fuller S D, Rutten T, Bamford D H
Abstract excerpt
Bacteriophage PRD1 is a membrane-containing virus with an unexpected similarity to adenovirus. We mutagenized unassigned PRD1 genes to identify minor capsid proteins that could be structural or functional analogs to adenovirus proteins. We report here the identification of an amber mutant, sus525, in an essential PRD1 gene XXXI. The gene was cloned and the gene product was overexpressed and purified to near...
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