FLOW LINEAR DICHROISM SPECTRA OF 4 FILAMENTOUS BACTERIOPHAGES - DNA AND COAT PROTEIN CONTRIBUTIONS

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CLACK, BA
GRAY, DM
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[1] The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, 75083-0688, Mail Stop FO 3.1
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10.1002/bip.360320708
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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In this study, we have separated the contributions of DNA and protein to the absorption and linear dichroism (LD) of each of four phages: fd, IKe, Pf1, and Pf3. We have found that the DNA packaged in each of the phages is hypochromic relative to the purified single-stranded DNA, suggesting that bases are stacked in all of the phages. We have oriented the phages by flow and for the first time report the intrinsic LD from 320 to 190 nm for each of these phages. From the intrinsic LD of the phages and the isotropic absorption of the individual components, we have determined the reduced dichroism of the DNA within the phages and, subsequently, the maximum angle of inclination of the DNA bases (from the helix axis) for the packaged DNA. The maximum angles were 63-degrees and 64-degrees for the DNAs of class I phages fd and IKe, respectively. The angles were significantly less, 51-degrees and 49-degrees, for the DNAs of the class II phages Pf1 and Pf3, respectively. Thus, the two classes of phage differ in the structures of their packaged DNA, the DNA bases of the class II phages being more parallel to the long axis of the phage than are the DNA bases of the class I phages.
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