Genetics of critical contacts and clashes in the DNA packaging specificities of bacteriophages λ and 21

Virology

Volumn 476, Issue , 2015, Pages 115-123

  Sippy, Jean ^a   Patel, Priyal ^b   Vahanian, Nicole ^a   Sippy, Rachel ^c   Feiss, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA recognition; Terminase; TerS; Viral packaging; Virus assembly

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; TERMINASE; TERS SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; VIRUS DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE 21; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSBS SUBSITE; DNA BINDING; DNA HELIX; DNA PACKAGING; DNA STRUCTURE; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; R SEQUENCE; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGES; BINDING SITES; DNA PACKAGING; DNA, VIRAL; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 84919754921     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: 10960341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2014.11.028     Document Type: Article

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