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. 1984 Aug;51(2):522–529. doi: 10.1128/jvi.51.2.522-529.1984

Genetic and physiological studies of an Escherichia coli locus that restricts polynucleotide kinase- and RNA ligase-deficient mutants of bacteriophage T4.

M A Jabbar, L Snyder
PMCID: PMC254468  PMID: 6086961

Abstract

The RNA ligase and polynucleotide kinase of bacteriophage T4 are nonessential enzymes in most laboratory Escherichia coli strains. However, T4 mutants which do not induce the enzymes are severely restricted in E. coli CTr5X, a strain derived from a clinical E. coli isolate. We have mapped the restricting locus in E. coli CTr5X and have transduced it into other E. coli strains. The restrictive locus seems to be a gene, or genes, unique to CTr5X or to be an altered form of a nonessential gene, since deleting the locus seems to cause loss of the phenotypes. In addition to restricting RNA ligase- and polynucleotide kinase-deficient T4, the locus also restricts bacteriophages lambda and T4 with cytosine DNA. When lambda or T4 with cytosine DNA infect strains with the prr locus, the phage DNA is injected, but phage genes are not expressed and the host cells survive. These phenotypes are unlike anything yet described for a phage-host interaction.

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