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. 1991 Feb;173(3):1287–1297. doi: 10.1128/jb.173.3.1287-1297.1991

Cloning, sequencing, and recombinational analysis with bacteriophage BF23 of the bacteriophage T5 oad gene encoding the receptor-binding protein.

V Krauel 1, K J Heller 1
PMCID: PMC207253  PMID: 1825083

Abstract

Binding of bacteriophage T5 to its receptor, the Escherichia coli FhuA protein, is mediated by tail protein pb5. In this article we confirm that pb5 is encoded by the T5 oad gene and describe the isolation, expression, and sequencing of this gene. In order to locate oad precisely, we analyzed recombinants between BF23, a T5-related phage with a different host range, and plasmid clones containing segments of the T5 chromosome. This analysis also showed that oad has little or no homology with hrs, the analogous BF23 gene. We were able to overproduce a protein that comigrates with pb5 after fusing a 2-kb segment containing oad to a phage T7 promoter. This segment contains an open reading frame that can encode a protein of the appropriate size. Its deduced amino acid sequence does not closely resemble that of any other protein in the database. The sequence upstream of the open reading frame shows typical characteristics of a promoter region with two overlapping, divergently orientated promoters.

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