Regulation of the integration-excision reaction by bacteriophage lambda.
Regulation of the integration-excision reaction by bacteriophage lambda.
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噬菌体 lambda 调节整合-切除反应。
DOI:
10.1101/sqb.1981.045.01.058
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发表时间:
1981
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Sosa,L
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作者:
Miller,HI;Abraham,J;Benedik,M;Campbell,A;Court,D;Echols,H;Fischer,R;Galindo,JM;Guarneros,G;Hernandez,T;Mascarenhas,D;Montanez,C;Schindler,D;Schmeissner,U;Sosa,L
Bacteriophage h regulates the integration-excision reaction as a crucial aspect of controlled development along the two viral pathways, lysogenic and productive. The events essential for the lysogenic response are complete repression of productive functions and integration of the viral DNA. The events essential for the productive response are an ordered expression of replication and maturation functions and, for an induced prophage, excision of the viral DNA. The choice between the two pathways available to the phage can be considered in terms of an initial regulatory partition toward one pathway or the other, stabilized in turn by subsequent regulatory events. The clI-and clII-gene products (clI and clII proteins) of)~ provide for the first stage of the lysogenic response, turning on production of the maintenance repressor cI and the integration protein Int and delaying the expression of late lytic functions. The cI protein stabilizes the lysogenic pathway by a switchoff of the productive pathway regulated by the~ cro and Q products (Cro and Q); an excess of Int over the excision protein Xis executes the recombinational switch toward insertion (reviewed by Herskowitz 1973; Weisberg et al. 1977; Echols 1979, 1980; Fig. 1). The choice oflysogenic or productive growth involves the host as well as the phage. The clI protein is probably the primary partition function on which other regulatory influences act. These include the phage protein clII and host proteins Hfl and HimA. Since HimA is also an accessory factor for the activity of Int in integrative recombination, there exists dual regulation of integrative recombination at the level of activity and synthesis of Int.The basis for directional control of integration and excision is the different catalytic requirements for the forward and reverse reactions. As diagramed below, the only phage-specified protein required for integrative recombination is Int, whereas excisive recombination requires the viral proteins Int and Xis (Weisberg et al. 1977; Nash 1978; Echols 1980).