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. 1983 Jul;80(14):4195–4199. doi: 10.1073/pnas.80.14.4195

In vitro synthesis of bacteriophage phi X174 by purified components.

A Aoyama, R K Hamatake, M Hayashi
PMCID: PMC384003  PMID: 6224217

Abstract

An in vitro system capable of synthesizing infectious phi X174 phage particles was reconstituted from purified components. The synthesis required phi X174 supercoiled replicative form DNA, phi X174-encoded proteins A, C, J, and prohead, Escherichia coli DNA polymerase III holoenzyme, rep protein, and deoxyuridinetriphosphatase (dUTPase, dUTP nucleotidohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.23) as well as MgCl2, four deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates, and ATP. Phage production was coupled to the synthesis of viral single-stranded DNA. More than 70% of the synthesized particles sedimented at the position of mature phage in a sucrose gradient and associated with the infectivity. The simple requirement of the host proteins suggests that the mechanism of viral strand synthesis in the phage-synthesizing reaction resembles that of viral strand synthesis during the replication of replicative form DNA.

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