Termination of packaging of the bacteriophage λ chromosome: CosQ is required for nicking the bottom strand of cosN

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 280, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-29

  Cue, David ^a   Feiss, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Concatemer processing; DNA protein interactions; Virion assembly; Virus DNA packaging

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; VIRUS ENZYME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DNA PACKAGING; DNA TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0032479450     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.1841     Document Type: Article

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