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Sequence diversity and functional conservation of the origin of replication in lactococcal prolate phages.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Sept 2003
Rakonjac Jasna, Ward Lawrence J H, Schiemann Anja H, Gardner Paul P, Lubbers Mark W, O'Toole Paul W
Abstract excerpt
Prolate or c2-like phages are a large homologous group of viruses that infect the bacterium Lactococcus lactis. In a collection of 122 prolate phages, three distinct, non-cross-hybridizing groups of origins of DNA replication were found. The nonconserved sequence was confined to the template for an untranslated transcript, P(E)1-T, 300 to 400 nucleotides in length, while the flanking sequences were conserved. All...
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