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J Bacteriol. 1994 March; 176(6): 1667-1672

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DNA helicase requirements for DNA replication during bacteriophage T4 infection.

Department of Science, Western State College, Gunnison, Colorado 81231.

ABSTRACT

The lytic bacteriophage T4 uses multiple mechanisms to initiate the replication of its DNA. Initiation occurs predominantly at replication origins at early times of infection, but there is a switch to genetic recombination-dependent initiation at late times of infection. The T4 insertion-substitution system was used to create a deletion in the T4 dda gene, which encodes a 5'-3' DNA helicase that stimulates both DNA replication and recombination reactions in vitro. The deletion caused a delay in T4 DNA synthesis at early times of infection, suggesting that the Dda protein is involved in the initiation of origin-dependent DNA synthesis. However, DNA synthesis eventually reached nearly wild-type levels, and the final number of phages produced per bacterium was similar to that of the wild type. When the dda mutant phage also contained a mutation in T4 gene 59 (a gene normally required only for recombination-dependent DNA replication), essentially no DNA was synthesized. Recent in vitro studies have shown that the gene 59 protein loads a component of the primosome, the T4 gene 41 DNA helicase, onto DNA. A molecular model for replication initiation is presented that is based on our genetic data.

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