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The RNA-binding domain of bacteriophage P22 N protein is highly mutable, and a single mutation relaxes specificity toward lambda.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Dec 2008
Cocozaki Alexis I, Ghattas Ingrid R, Smith Colin A
Abstract excerpt
Antitermination in bacteriophage P22, a lambdoid phage, uses the arginine-rich domain of the N protein to recognize boxB RNAs in the nut site of two regulated transcripts. Using an antitermination reporter system, we screened libraries in which each nonconserved residue in the RNA-binding domain of P22 N was randomized. Mutants were assayed for the ability to complement N-deficient virus and for antitermination...
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