Defining the SOS Operon of Coliphage 186
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The Tum protein of coliphage 186 is an antirepressor.
The tum gene of coliphage 186, encoded on a LexA controlled operon, is essential for UV induction of a 186 prophage. Primer extension analysis is used to confirm that Tum is the sole phage function required for prophage induction and that it acts against the maintenance repressor, CI, to relieve repression of the lytic promoters, pR and pB, and thereby bring about lytic development. In vitro ex...
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عنوان ژورنال: Virology
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0042-6822
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1996.0227