Phage P1
Bacteriophage P1 Phage P1 was isolated in 1951 by Giuseppe Bertani from the Escherichia coli strain of Lisbonne and Carrere. [1]
Morphology
Phage P1 exhibits the classical bacteriophage morphology with an icosahedral head, 220nm long inflexible tail with a complete tube surrounded by a contractile sheath, baseplate and six kinked tail fibers. The icosahedral head contains the phage genome. A variable part(encoded by an invertible segment of P1 DNA) of the tail fibers(1 to 2nm thick) determines the specificity of P1 adsorption on different hosts.[2]
Genome Organization
Life cycle
Lytic cycle
Adsorbtion and Injection
Early gene expression
Middle gene expression
DNA replication
Late gene expression
Packaging
Lysis
Lysogenic state
Lysis-Lysogeny switch
Prophage induction
See also
- Phage P1 Gene List
- NC 005856 on NCBI
- GenBank record for P1
- Phage P1 Taxonomy on NCBI
- International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
- Wikipedia: Phage P1
References
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