Article
A natural longer glycine-rich region in IKe filamentous phage confers no selective advantage.
Gene - 3 Jan 1997
Bruno R, Bradbury A
Abstract excerpt
Filamentous phage infect bacteria bearing pili. The phage protein involved in the recognition of pili and subsequent penetration of the phage into bacteria is the gene 3 protein (g3p). This is a multi-domain protein with glycine-rich regions separating some of the domains. Here we have found an insertion within the glycine-rich domain of the g3p of IKe, a filamentous phage which infects bacteria bearing N pili....
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