Phage T4 SegB protein is a homing endonuclease required for the preferred inheritance of T4 tRNA gene region occurring in co-infection with a related phage

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2094-2105

  Brok Volchanskaya, Vera S ^a   Kadyrov, Farid A ^a,c   Sivogrivov, Dmitry E ^a   Kolosov, Peter M ^a,d   Sokolov, Andrey S ^a   Shlyapnikov, Michael G ^a   Kryukov, Valentine M ^b   Granovsky, Igor E ^a  

^a SKRYABIN INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF MICROORGANISMS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF CELL BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; PROTEIN SEGB; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INHERITANCE; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUPERINFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

BACTERIOPHAGE T4; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, VIRAL; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENE CONVERSION; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MYOVIRIDAE; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA, TRANSFER; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; T-PHAGES; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 41849108137     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn053     Document Type: Article

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