Abstract
Bacteriophages are bacterial viruses that infect bacterial cells, and they have developed ingenious mechanisms to modify the bacterial RNA polymerase. Using a rapid, specific, single-step affinity isolation procedure to purify Escherichia coli RNA polymerase from bacteriophage T4-infected cells, we have identified bacteriophage T4-dependent modifications of the host RNA polymerase. We suggest that this methodology is broadly applicable for the identification of bacteriaphage-dependent alterations of the host synthesis machinery.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1244-1250 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Journal of Proteome Research |
Volume | 7 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 2008 |
Keywords
- Affinityisolation
- Bacteriophage
- Bacteriophage infection
- Coli
- Escherichia
- MALDI MS
- RNA polymerase
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Chemistry
- Biochemistry