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Journal of Bacteriology, July 2004, p. 4369-4375, Vol. 186, No. 13
0021-9193/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.13.4369-4375.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Displacements of Prohead Protease Genes in the Late Operons of Double-Stranded-DNA Bacteriophages{dagger}

Jing Liu* and Arcady Mushegian

Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, Missouri 64110, and Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, and Immunology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas 66160

Received 21 November 2003/ Accepted 1 March 2004

Most of the known prohead maturation proteases in double-stranded-DNA bacteriophages are shown, by computational methods, to fall into two evolutionarily independent clans of serine proteases, herpesvirus assemblin-like and ClpP-like. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that these two types of phage prohead protease genes displaced each other multiple times while preserving their exact location within the late operons of the phage genomes.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Stowers Institute for Medical Research, 1000 E. 50th St., Kansas City, MO 64110. Phone: (816) 926-4425. Fax: (816) 926-2073. E-mail: jil{at}stowers-institute.org.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://jb.asm.org/.

Journal of Bacteriology, July 2004, p. 4369-4375, Vol. 186, No. 13
0021-9193/04/$08.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.13.4369-4375.2004
Copyright © 2004, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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