Genome of bacteriophage P1.
P1 is a bacteriophage of Escherichia coli and other enteric bacteria. It lysogenizes its hosts as a circular, low-copy-number plasmid. We have determined the complete nucleotide sequences of two strains of a P1 thermoinducible mutant, P1 c1-100. The P1 genome (93,601 bp) contains at least 117 genes, of which almost two-thirds had not been sequenced previously and 49 have no homologs in other organisms. Protein-coding genes occupy 92% of the genome and are organized in 45 operons, of which four are decisive for the choice between lysis and lysogeny. Four others ensure plasmid maintenance. The majority of the remaining 37 operons are involved in lytic development. Seventeen operons are transcribed from sigma(70) promoters directly controlled by the master phage repressor C1. Late operons are transcribed from promoters recognized by the E. coli RNA polymerase holoenzyme in the presence of the Lpa protein, the product of a C1-controlled P1 gene. Three species of P1-encoded tRNAs provide differential controls of translation, and a P1-encoded DNA methyltransferase with putative bifunctionality influences transcription, replication, and DNA packaging. The genome is particularly rich in Chi recombinogenic sites. The base content and distribution in P1 DNA indicate that replication of P1 from its plasmid origin had more impact on the base compositional asymmetries of the P1 genome than replication from the lytic origin of replication.
Department of Microbial Biochemistry, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Ul. Pawinskiego 5A, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland. lobocka@ibb.waw.pl
Małgorzata B
MB
Łobocka
Debra J
DJ
Rose
Guy
G
Plunkett
Marek
M
Rusin
Arkadiusz
A
Samojedny
Hansjörg
H
Lehnherr
Michael B
MB
Yarmolinsky
Frederick R
FR
Blattner
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D017101:Bacteriophage P1 / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000821:virology; D015967:Gene Expression Regulation, Viral; D016679:Genome, Viral; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism
D014764:Viral Proteins