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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 30.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Virus Res. 2012;83:219–298. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394438-2.00006-2

TABLE IV.

Published phage λ–host interactionsa

λ Host Description References
Transcription
CI RecA RecA degrades CIb Kobiler et al., 2004
CI RpoA Kędzierska et al., 2007
CI RpoD Li et al., 1994; Nickels et al., 2002
CII ClpYQ ClpYQ degrades CII in vitro Kobiler et al., 2004
CII ClpAP ClpAP degrades CII in vitro Kobiler et al., 2004
CII HflD HflD makes CII more vulnerable to FtsH (hfl, high-frequency lysogenization) Kihara et al., 2001
CII HflBc HflB (= FtsH) protease degrades cII Kobiler et al., 2002; Shotland et al., 2000
CII RpoA Kędzierska et al., 2004; Marr et al., 2004
CII RpoD Kędzierska et al., 2004
CIII HflB CIII inhibits HflB; HflB degrades CIII Herman et al., 1997; Kornitzer et al., 1991
gpN NusA Transcriptional regulation Friedman and Court, 2001
gpN Lon Lon degrades gpN Kobiler et al., 2004; Gottesman et al., 1981
gpQ σ70 gpQ makes RNAP insensitive to cis terminal Marr et al., 2001;Nickels et al., 2002; Roberts and Roberts, 1996; Roberts et al., 1998
Head
gpB GroE genetic interaction; E. coli GroE Ang et al., 2000; Georgopoulos et al., 1973; Murialdo, 1979
gpE GroE genetic interaction Georgopoulos et al., 1973
Tail
gpJ LamB LamB is the E. coli receptor Buchwald and Siminovitch, 1969; Clement et al., 1983; Mount et al., 1968; Wang et al., 2000a; Werts et al., 1994
Stf OmpC OmpC is a secondary E. coli receptor Hendrix and Duda, 1992
Recombination
Xis Lon Xis is degraded by E. coli Lon protease Leffers and Gottesman, 1998
Xis FtsH Xis is degraded by E. coli FtsH protease Leffers and Gottesman, 1998
Xis Fis both required for excision Ball and Johnson, 1991; Cho et al., 2002; Esposito and Gerard, 2003
Int IHF Both catalyze recombination at attP/attB Campbell et al., 2002; Crisona et al., 1999
Gam RecB Gam inhibits RecBCD Marsic et al., 1993
NinB SSB NinB also binds ssDNA Maxwell et al., 2005
Replication
gpO ClpXP ClpXP degrades gpO Kobiler et al., 2004
gpP DnaA Datta et al., 2005b,c
gpP DnaB Mallory et al., 1990
a

CbpA (Wegrzyn et al., 1996) perhaps interacts with DnaA and SeqA (Potrykus et al., 2002; Wegrzyn and Wegrzyn, 2001, 2002).

b

After DNA damage, RecA bound to single-stranded DNA stimulates autocleavage of the CI repressor (Kobiler et al., 2004).

c

HflB = FtsH.