Identification and characterization of phage-resistance genes in temperate lactococcal bacteriophages

Autor:	Douwe van Sinderen, Gerald F. Fitzgerald, Stephen P. McGrath
Rok vydání:	2002
Předmět:	Genetics viruses Lactococcus lactis Repressor Biology Superinfection exclusion biology.organism_classification Microbiology Integrase Transduction (genetics) Plasmid Lysogenic cycle biology.protein Molecular Biology Gene
Zdroj:	Molecular Microbiology. 43:509-520
ISSN:	1365-2958 0950-382X
DOI:	10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.02763.x
Popis:	The sie2009 gene, which is situated between the genes encoding the repressor and integrase, on the lysogeny module of the temperate lactococcal bacteriophage Tuc2009, was shown to mediate a phage-resistance phenotype in Lactococcus lactis against a number of bacteriophages. The Sie2009 protein is associated with the cell membrane and its expression leaves phage adsorption, transfection and plasmid transformation unaffected, but interferes with plasmid transduction, as well as phage replication. These observations indicate that this resistance is as a result of DNA injection blocking, thus representing a novel superinfection exclusion system. A polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based strategy was used to screen a number of lactococcal strains for the presence of other prophage-encoded phage-resistance systems. This screening resulted in the identification of two such systems, without homology to sie2009, which were shown to mediate a phage-resistance phenotype similar to that conferred by sie2009. To our knowledge, this is the first description of a phage-encoded super-infection exclusion/injection blocking mechanism in the genus Lactococcus.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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