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. 1981 Dec;78(12):7285–7289. doi: 10.1073/pnas.78.12.7285

Morphogenesis of phi X174: in vitro synthesis of infectious phage from purified viral components.

A Aoyama, R K Hamatake, M Hayashi
PMCID: PMC349250  PMID: 6461002

Abstract

An in vitro system that synthesizes infectious phage phi X174 was developed. The synthesis depended on phi X174 supercoiled replicative form DNA, purified phi X174 gene A protein, gene C protein, gene J protein, prohead (phage head precursor composed of gene F, G, H, B, and D proteins), and uninfected host crude extract. The infectious phage synthesis was coupled with DNA synthesis. De novo initiation, elongation, and termination of phi X174 single-stranded DNA was observed. The phage synthesized in vitro cosedimented with in vivo phage in sucrose gradients and had the same buoyant density as in vivo phage in a CsCl gradient. Our results indicate that the in vitro system mimics the in vivo phi X174 assembly process.

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