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ArticleJournal of virology2002

Phylogenetic and functional analysis of the bacteriophage P1 single-stranded DNA-binding protein.

Jannick Dyrløv Bendtsen, Anders S Nilsson, Hansjörg Lehnherr

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Article in Journal of virology, 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Jannick Dyrløv BendtsenDepartment of Genetics and Biochemistry, Institute of Microbiology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany.
Anders S Nilsson
Hansjörg Lehnherr
Stockholm University · SETechnical University of Denmark · DKUniversität Greifswald · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bacteriophage P1 encodes a single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB-P1), which shows 66% amino acid sequence identity to the SSB protein of the host bacterium Escherichia coli. A phylogenetic analysis indicated that the P1 ssb gene coexists with its E. coli counterpart as an independent unit and does not represent a recent acquisition of the phage. The P1 and E. coli SSB proteins are fully functionally interchangeable. SSB-P1 is nonessential for phage growth in an exponentially growing E. coli host, and it is sufficient to promote bacterial growth in the absence of the E. coli SSB protein. Expression studies showed that the P1 ssb gene is transcribed only, in an rpoS-independent fashion, during stationary-phase growth in E. coli. Mixed infection experiments demonstrated that a wild-type phage has a selective advantage over an ssb-null mutant when exposed to a bacterial host in the stationary phase. These results reconciled the observed evolutionary conservation with the seemingly redundant presence of ssb genes in many bacteriophages and conjugative plasmids.

Indexed as

Bacteriophage P1DNA-Binding ProteinsDNA ReplicationDNA, Single-StrandedPhylogenyViral ProteinsDNA-Binding ProteinsDNA, Single-StrandedViral Proteins

Identifiers

PMID12208948
PMCPMC136491
OpenAlexW1977052465

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