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A lambda transducing phage carrying the traGSTD genes of the E. coli K12 sex factor F was isolated by an in vivo technique, and characterized in ra complementation tests, by determining its restriction endonuclease fragment sizes, and by measuring heteroduplex molecules. The size and location on the F physical map of the tra transducing segment was thereby determined.
Comparison of the proteins synthesized in UV-irradiated cells by this phage and by a derivative carrying the amber traG79 mutation, allowed the traG product to be identified as a protein of molecular weight 100,000. In the same experiments, the sizes of the traT and traD products made by the phage were also measured, being 25,000 and 85,000 daltons respectively.
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Willetts, N., Maule, J. Characterisation of a λ transducing phage carrying the F conjugation gene traG . Molec. gen. Genet. 178, 675–680 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00337878
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