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Structure of the Capsid Size-Determining Scaffold of "Satellite" Bacteriophage P4.
Viruses - 27 Aug 2020
Kizziah James L, Rodenburg Cynthia M, Dokland Terje
Abstract excerpt
P4 is a mobile genetic element (MGE) that can exist as a plasmid or integrated into its Escherichia coli host genome, but becomes packaged into phage particles by a helper bacteriophage, such as P2. P4 is the original example of what we have termed "molecular piracy", the process by which one MGE usurps the life cycle of another for its own propagation. The P2 helper provides most of the structural gene products...
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