Article
Double-strand break repair and genetic recombination in topoisomerase and primase mutants of bacteriophage T4.
DNA repair - 1 Sept 2014
Shcherbakov Victor P, Kudryashova Elena
Abstract excerpt
The effects of primase and topoisomerase II deficiency on the double-strand break (DSB) repair and genetic recombination in bacteriophage T4 were studied in vivo using focused recombination. Site-specific DSBs were induced by SegC endonuclease in the rIIB gene of one of the parents. The frequency/distance relationship was determined in crosses of the wild-type phage, topoisomerase II mutant amN116 (gene 39), and...
Topics
- Bacteriophage T4
- DNA Primase
- DNA Topoisomerases
- Mutation
- Recombination, Genetic
- Recombinational DNA Repair
- Viral Proteins
