Bacillus subtilis bacteriophage SPP1 terminase has a dual activity: It is required for the packaging initiation and represses its own synthesis

Gene

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 251-256

  Chai, Sunghee ^a,b   Szepan, Uwe ^b,c   Alonso, Juan C ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c Inst für Med Virologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA packaging; DNA replication mutant; Late gene; Terminase; Transcription control

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA PACKAGING; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACILLUS PHAGES; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; DNA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, VIRAL; OPERON; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL REGULATORY PROTEINS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0031022753     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00609-9     Document Type: Article

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