The lambda head-tail joining reaction: purification, properties and structure of biologically active heads and tails.
The lambda head-tail joining reaction: purification, properties and structure of biologically active heads and tails.
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拉姆达头尾连接反应:生物活性头尾的纯化、性质和结构。
DOI:
10.1016/0022-2836(73)90397-5
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发表时间:
1973
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
V. C. Bode
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文献类型:
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作者:
D. Harrison;D. T. Brown;V. C. Bode
Procedures were developed to obtain biologically active lambda heads and tails at high purity with 20 to 40% recovery. Free heads, free tails and phage particles differ markedly in stability. Phage are stable in solutions containing Mg2+but tails are not. The protein subunits which form the shaft of the tail dissociate in the presence of Mg2+and form multisubunit spherical structures. EDTA protects free tails against inactivation but disrupts heads and phage particles. The four carbon diamine, putrescine, stabilizes heads against inactivation; the three and five carbon diamines are less effective. Electron micrographs reveal a new “knob” structure at the distal end of the tail fiber of phage and of free tails. Tails released from EDTA-disrupted phage possess a “head-tail connector”, a structure not present on the tail before its joining with a head.