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ArticlePLoS genetics2013

Transposable prophage Mu is organized as a stable chromosomal domain of E. coli.

Rudra P Saha, Zheng Lou, Luke Meng, Rasika M Harshey

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Article in PLoS genetics, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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  7. Phage Mu Gam protein promotes NHEJ in concert withProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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  10. DNA supercoiling: a regulatory signal for the λ repressor.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014
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  11. Transposable Phage Mu.Microbiology spectrum · 2014
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Rudra P SahaDepartment of Molecular Biosciences & Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America.
Zheng Lou
Luke Meng
Rasika M Harshey

Funding

STUDIES ON BACTERIOPHAGE MU DNA TRANSPOSITIONR01GM033247 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN · PI HARSHEY, RASIKA M · 1985 to 2013
$4.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM 33247NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM033247
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The E. coli chromosome is compacted by segregation into 400-500 supercoiled domains by both active and passive mechanisms, for example, transcription and DNA-protein association. We find that prophage Mu is organized as a stable domain bounded by the proximal location of Mu termini L and R, which are 37 kbp apart on the Mu genome. Formation/maintenance of the Mu 'domain' configuration, reported by Cre-loxP recombination and 3C (chromosome conformation capture), is dependent on a strong gyrase site (SGS) at the center of Mu, the Mu L end and MuB protein, and the E. coli nucleoid proteins IHF, Fis and HU. The Mu domain was observed at two different chromosomal locations tested. By contrast, prophage λ does not form an independent domain. The establishment/maintenance of the Mu domain was promoted by low-level transcription from two phage promoters, one of which was domain dependent. We propose that the domain confers transposition readiness to Mu by fostering topological requirements of the reaction and the proximity of Mu ends. The potential benefits to the host cell from a subset of proteins expressed by the prophage may in turn help its long-term stability.

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Bacteriophage lambdaBacteriophage muChromosomesChromosomes, BacterialDNA GyraseDNA ReplicationDNA Topoisomerases, Type IIEscherichia coliLysogenyVirus ReplicationDNA GyraseDNA Topoisomerases, Type II

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PMID24244182
PMCPMC3820752

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