Lambda phages

Hervet, H Bean, CP, Electrophoretic Mobility of Lambda Phage HIND III and HAE III DNA Eragments in Agarose Gels A Detailed Study, Biopolymers 26, 727, 1987. 

Luckey, M. and Nikaido, H. (1980). Specificity of diffusion channels produced by lambda phage receptor protein of Escherichia coli, Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA, 11, 167-171. 

Povirk LF, Goldberg IH (1986) Base substitution mutations induced in the cl gene of lambda phage by neocarzinostatin chromophore correlation with depyrimidination hotspots at the sequence AGC. Nucleic Acids Res 14 1417-1426... 

A recent XRD study of CL/DNA complexes has revealed that the addition of linear lambda-phage DNA (48, 502 bp, contour length=16.5 pm) (Raedler et al., 1997) or plasmid DNA (Lin et al., 2000) to binary mixtures of cationic liposomes (mean diameter of 70 nm), consisting of mixtures of neutral lipid DOPC and cationic DOTAP, induces a topological transition from liposomes into collapsed condensates in the form of optically birefringent liquid crystalline (LC) globules with sizes on the order of 1pm. 

Goff SP, Berg P (1976), Construction of hybrid viruses containing SV40 and lambda phage DNA segments and their propagation in cultured monkey cells, Cell 9 695-705. 

Patterson, T. A., and Dean, M. (1987). Preparation of High Titer Lambda Phage Lysates. Nucleic Acids Res 15 6298. 

Display on lambda phages has been described with two major coat proteins the gpV tail protein [23, 24] and the gpD head protein [25, 26]. Both proteins accept C-terminal fusions, which offers alternative systems for displaying cDNA libraries. A high level of display is possible as demonstrated by the total modification of gpV [27] and gpD [25] proteins. The structure of gpD has been solved recently [28] this should help the design of optimal display vectors. 

Plasmids and Lambda Phage Are Choiee Veetors for DNA Cloning in Bacteria... 

Figure 6.14. Alternative Infection Modes For A, phage. Lambda phage can multiply within a host and lyse it (lytic pathway), or its DNA can become integrated into the host genome (lysogenic pathway), where it is dormant until activated. 

C. Bustamante, J.F. Marko, E.D. Siggia, S. Smith, Entropic elasticity of lambda-phage DNA. Science 265, 1599-1600 (1994)... 

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