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. 1986 Dec;60(3):1145–1147. doi: 10.1128/jvi.60.3.1145-1147.1986

The bacteriophage T4 regulatory protein gpunf/alc binds to DNA in the absence of RNA polymerase.

D P Snustad, N Haas, D G Oppenheimer
PMCID: PMC253370  PMID: 3783815

Abstract

DNA-cellulose chromatography and two-dimensional gel electrophoresis have been used to demonstrate the DNA-binding capacity of bacteriophage T4 gpunf/alc. The unf/alc protein does not bind to DNA via an association with RNA polymerase; gpunf/alc was shown to bind to DNA after separation from RNA polymerase and other large proteins by Sephadex chromatography.

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