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  • Title: Synthesis of the capsid protein inhibits development of bacteriophage T3 mutants that abortively infect F plasmid-containing cells.
    Author: Condreay JP, Molineux IJ.
    Journal: J Mol Biol; 1989 Jun 05; 207(3):543-54. PubMed ID: 2668535.
    Abstract:
    Mutants of bacteriophage T3 that lack gene 1.2 resemble wild-type phage T7 in that they are unable productively to infect F plasmid-containing cells of Escherichia coli. Pseudorevertants of a T3 gene 1.2 deletion mutant that have regained the ability to plate efficiently on male cells have been isolated and characterized. At least two mutations in the gene for the major capsid protein are necessary for these phages to bypass F-mediated restriction. One mutation serves to reduce the rate of synthesis of the capsid protein; a second mutation apparently alters an unknown property that is intrinsic to the free, or unassembled form of the protein. During the abortive infection of an F-containing host, synthesis of the wild-type capsid protein directly inhibits further phage development.
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