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A deletion of phage P2, del6 (L.E. Bertani, 1980), thought to remove the structural gene int, and a deletion/substitution, vir94, thought to remove genes int, C and cox, were mapped by electron microscopy, using the heteroduplex technique.
Four independent deletion/substitution mutations, all affecting the regulatory region of P2, were compared in all possible combinations with the same technique: two showed sequence homology in their substitution DNA. The results confirm the model proposed for the origin of these mutants, analogous to that for the origin of transducing variants in phage λ, but suggest in first approximation that the exchange between the P2 DNA and the chromosome of the host bacterium may occur at several different bacterial sites.
A map of the regulatory region of P2, based on all data available from the study of deletions and insertions, is presented.
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Chattoraj, D.K., Bertani, G. Further physical characterization of deletion and substitution mutants affecting the control of lysogeny in bacteriophage P2. Molec. Gen. Genet. 178, 85–90 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00267216
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