Temperate coliphage HK253: attachment site and restricted transduction of proAB mutants of Escherichia coli K-12.
Temperate coliphage HK253 integrates near the proAB locus on the Escherichia coli K-12 chromosome. It can bring about specialized transduction of proAB and phoE mutants of E. coli, but it is incapable of general transduction. One of the proline-transducing particles was found to be nondefective.
D003090:Coliphages / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics*; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D014161:Transduction, Genetic