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Bacteriophage P22 portal protein is part of the gauge that regulates packing density of intravirion DNA.
Journal of molecular biology - 20 Apr 1992
Casjens S, Wyckoff E, Hayden M, Sampson L, Eppler K, Randall S, Moreno E T, Serwer P
Abstract excerpt
The complex double-stranded DNA bacteriophages assemble DNA-free protein shells (procapsids) that subsequently package DNA. In the case of several double-stranded DNA bacteriophages, including P22, packaging is associated with cutting of DNA from the concatemeric molecule that results from replication. The mature intravirion P22 DNA has both non-unique (circularly permuted) ends and a length that is determined by...
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