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Journal of Bacteriology, May 2002, p. 2833-2836, Vol. 184, No. 10
0021-9193/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.10.2833-2836.2002
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Bacteriophage SP6 Is Closely Related to Phages K1-5, K5, and K1E but Encodes a Tail Protein Very Similar to That of the Distantly Related P22

Laboratory of Biochemical Genetics, National Institute of Mental Health,¹ Section of Developmental Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892²

Received 17 October 2001/ Accepted 22 February 2002

The lytic salmonella phage SP6 encodes a tail protein with a high degree of sequence similarity to the tail protein of the biologically unrelated lysogenic salmonella phage P22. The SP6 tail gene is flanked by an upstream region that contains a promoter and a downstream region that contains a putative Rho-independent transcription terminator, giving it a cassette or modular structure almost identical to the structure of the tail genes of coliphages K1E, K5, and K1-5. It now appears that SP6, K1-5, K5, and K1E are very closely related but have different tail fiber proteins, giving them different host specificities.

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