INTERGENIC REGION AND THE ORIGINS FOR FILAMENTOUS PHAGE DNA-REPLICATION
INTERGENIC REGION AND THE ORIGINS FOR FILAMENTOUS PHAGE DNA-REPLICATION
复制标题
DOI:
10.1101/sqb.1979.043.01.046
复制
发表时间:
1979-01-01
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
SCHALLER, H
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
SCHALLER, H
Phages that have a single-stranded genome, such as~ bX174 and fd, begin their life cycles in infected cells with the conversion of their viral circular DNA into the covalently closed, duplex, parental replicative form (RF) DNA (stage I, single-stranded to double-stranded [SS~ DS] DNA replication). The next stage of growth requires a phage-coded protein that will nick the RF DNA at the origin and prepare it as a substrate for further replication by host proteins (stage II, DS~ DS DNA replication). In the last stage, phage proteins complex the viral strand, restrict the formation of complementary strands, and allow the assembly of progeny virus containing the viral DNA circle (stage III, DS-~ SS DNA replication). Filamentous bacteriophages do not lyse the infected host cell. Their genome is propagated as a" multicopy plasmid" through many bacterial generations, with a concomitant release of phage progeny from the infected host. As a consequence of this parasital life cycle, stages II and III of DNA replication occur simultaneously in a coupled and well-balanced manner, so that a high copy number of DS and SS DNA molecules is maintained in the infected cell. The ratio of the two modes of DNA synthesis is controlled by the level of viral gene-V protein, a DNA-binding protein (DBP) which appears to interfere with complementary-strand synthesis (Mazur and Model 1973). Initiation of viral-strand synthesis is in turn controlled by gene-II protein, a viral initiation factor which acts as a strand-specific nicking activity (Fidanifin and Ray 1972; Geider and Meyer, this volume). During all stages of phage multiplication, DNA replication is initiated at a distinct site, as indicated by the distribution of newly synthesized DNA in completed phage DNA molecules after pulse labeling in vivo (Horiuchi and Zinder 1976; Suggs and Ray 1977). Within the limits of the method used, this initiation site was found to be the same for both the viral strand and the complementary strand, and its map position coincides with the one determined in vitro for the start of SS~ DS conversion of viral DNA (Tabak et al. 1974; Schaller et al. 1976). New information on the structure and function of the origin has recently become available as a result of the improvement of in vitro replication systems (Geider and Meyer, this volume) and the determination of the nucleotide sequence of the phage genome (Schaller et al. 1978). The purpose