Lambda placMu: a transposable derivative of bacteriophage lambda for creating lacZ protein fusions in a single step

Construction from Mu d1 (lac Apr) lysogens of lambda bacteriophage bearing promoter-lac fusions: isolation of lambda ppheA-lac.

Bacteriophage Mu d1 (lac Aprr) was used to obtain strains of Escherichia coli K-12 in which the lac genes are expressed from the promoter of pheA, the structural gene for the enzyme chorismate mutase P-prephenate-dehydratase. A derivative of bacteriophage lambda which carries the pheA-lac fusion was prepared; the method used is generally applicable for the construction, from Mu dl lysogens, of ...

Genetic recombination in bacteriophage lambda

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Genetic map of bacteriophage lambda.

Novel bacteriophage lambda mutation affecting lambda head assembly.

A novel phage lambda mutation, called dc10, which interferes with proper lambda head assembly has been isolated and characterized. Phage lambda carrying this mutation is (i) unable to form plaques at 30 or 37 degrees C but does so at 42 degrees C and (ii) unable to form plaques at 42 degrees C on pN-constitutive hosts. Both properties are due to dc10 since all phage revertants for one phenotype...

In vitro assembly of bacteriophage Lambda heads.

The assembly of plaque-forming particles in cell-free extracts of induced lambda lysogens was observed two ways. (i) DNA isolated from a lambda-related phage, 434 for example, is added to an extract of an induced lambda lysogen, and plaque-formers with the genotype of the added DNA are detected. (ii) One extract from an induced lambda lysogen that carries an amber mutation in one of the head ge...