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A Mutant of Bacteriophage T7 Deficient in Polynucleotide Ligase

Yukito Masamune, +2 more
- 25 Nov 1971 - 
- Vol. 246, Iss: 22, pp 6874-6879
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Small fragments of DNA accumulate after T7amHA13 infection of N1318, suggesting that the T7 ligase plays a role in DNA replication, but that the wild type host can supply sufficient ligase activity for growth of phage T7.
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This article is published in Journal of Biological Chemistry.The article was published on 1971-11-25 and is currently open access. It has received 88 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ligase activity & DNA ligase.

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Refactoring bacteriophage T7

TL;DR: The viability of the initial design suggests that the genomes encoding natural biological systems can be systematically redesigned and built anew in service of scientific understanding or human intention.
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Gene 0.3 of bacteriophage T7 acts to overcome the DNA restriction system of the host

TL;DR: In the course of searching for T7 mutants that are unable to overcome restriction, it was discovered that mutants defective in gene 2 are able to plate on E. coli C with essentially normal efficiency, and most gene 7 mutants are ableto plate on both C and K strains.
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DNA ligases in the repair and replication of DNA.

TL;DR: Sequence and structural analysis of DNA ligases has shown that these enzymes are built around a common catalytic core, which is likely to be similar in three-dimensional structure to that of T7-bacteriophage ligase.
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Genetic analysis of non-essential bacteriophage T7 genes.

TL;DR: Isolation and genetic characterization of a series of deletions and point mutants affecting two non-essential genes of bacteriophage T7 is described and host strains were found in which one or both of these T7 genes is required for growth.
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