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Nucleic Acids Research, 1985, Vol. 13, No. 2 605-616
© 1985

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The nucleotide sequences of the tail fiber gene 36 of bacteriophage T2 and of genes 36 of the T-even type Escherichia coli phages K3 and Ox2

Isolde Riede, Klaus Drexier and Marie-Luise Eschbach

Max-Planck-Institut für Biologie Corrensstrasse 38, D-7400 Tübingen, FRG

Received October 24, 1984. Revised December 31, 1984. Accepted December 31, 1984.

Genes 36 have been cloned from phage T2 and the T-even type phages K3 and Ox2. The products of these genes are part of the long tail fibers of the phages, they form the proximal moiety of the distal half fiber. The genes have been sequenced, the nucleotide sequence of gene 36 of phage T4 is known (Oliver, D.B. & Crowther, R.A. (1981) J.Mol.Biol. 153, 545–568). Comparison of the deduced amino acid sequences of the four proteins revealed a surprising pattern. These sequences can be divided into two highly conserved and one very variable region. The former consist of about 60 NH2-terminal and 70 CO2H-terminal residues flanking the variable middle region of about 100 residues. Thus, an identical and unique morphology can be formed by a number of different primary structures. It is proposed that the conserved areas are involved in binding of the proteins to the neighboring products of genes 35 and 37 and that this function has put constraints on the variability of the primary protein structure. The overall amino acid composition of the proteins is rather similar; the codon usage is that known for phage T4. The intercistronic region between genes 35 and 36 consisting of 62 base pairs and containing a presumed terminator for g35 transcription and the ‘late type’ promoter for transcription of genes 36, 37, and 38, is almost completely identical in the four phages.


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