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A 14-kilodalton inner membrane protein of Vibrio cholerae biotype e1 tor confers resistance to group IV choleraphage infection to classical vibrios.

Biophysics Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Calcutta.

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Choleraphage phi 149 differentiates the two biotypes, classical and el tor, of Vibrio cholerae. This phage cannot replicate in V. cholerae biotype el tor cells because the concatemeric DNA intermediates produced are unstable and cannot be chased to mature phage DNA. A V. cholerae biotype el tor gene coding for a 14,000-Da inner membrane protein which destabilizes the concatemeric DNA intermediates by hindering their binding to the cell membrane has been identified. Presumably, a 22,000-Da V. cholerae biotype el tor protein might also have a role in conferring phage phi 149 resistance to cells belonging to the biotype el tor. A nucleotide sequence homologous to the 1.2-kb V. cholerae biotype el tor DNA coding for both the 14,000- and 22,000-Da proteins is present in all strains of classical vibrios but is not transcribed. The nucleotide sequence of the gene coding for the 14,000-Da protein has been determined.

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