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. 1983;2(7):1207–1212. doi: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1983.tb01568.x

Identification and biosynthesis of the bacteriophage T4 mot regulatory protein.

M Uzan, J Leautey, Y d'Aubenton-Carafa, E Brody
PMCID: PMC555257  PMID: 6354709

Abstract

The T4 mot gene regulates middle mode RNA synthesis in phage-infected cells. The mot gene product has been identified in two ways. (i) Infections with amber and temperature-sensitive mot mutants both lead to the disappearance of a number of protein bands on SDS-polyacrylamide gels. These are middle mode proteins whose synthesis depends on mot function. The mot protein disappears from such gels after infection with a mot amber mutant, but not with the mot missense mutant. (ii) This same protein is the only one to have a charge alteration when proteins from wild-type phage and mot missense mutant infections are compared by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Mot protein is basic and has a mol. wt. of 24 000. It migrates between the positions of gp 1 and gp IPIII on 15% SDS-polyacrylamide gels. Mot protein synthesis begins immediately after infection and continues until 4 min after infection at 30 degrees C, after which time it is strongly inhibited. This inhibition depends neither on T4 DNA synthesis nor on ADP ribosylation of the alpha subunits of the Escherichia coli RNA polymerase. The mot protein does not regulate its own biosynthesis. It is stable throughout the course of infection.

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