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Conversion of linear DNA with hairpin telomeres into a circular molecule in the course of phage N15 lytic replication.
Journal of molecular biology - 14 Aug 2009
Mardanov Andrey V, Ravin Nikolai V
Abstract excerpt
The prophage of temperate coliphage N15 is not integrated into the bacterial chromosome but exists as a linear plasmid molecule with covalently closed ends. Upon infection of an Escherichia coli cell, the phage DNA circularises via cohesive ends. A phage-encoded enzyme, protelomerase, then cuts at another site, telRL, and forms hairpin ends (telomeres) of linear plasmid prophage. Bidirectional replication of a...
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