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. 1984 Mar;49(3):754–759. doi: 10.1128/jvi.49.3.754-759.1984

Initiation by bacteriophage T1 of DNA packaging at a site between the P and Q genes of bacteriophage lambda.

H Drexler
PMCID: PMC255534  PMID: 6230461

Abstract

The growth of phage T1 on cells tandemly lysogenic for heteroimmune lambdoid prophages leads to a nonrandom packaging of lambda DNA by T1. A site, called esp-lambda, is located between the P and Q genes of lambda and results in increased packaging to the left by T1. When cloned into pBR322, the esp-lambda site causes a significant increase in transduction of the plasmid by T1. The nin5 deletion inactivates esp-lambda.

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