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. 1972 Jul;69(7):1948-52.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.69.7.1948.

Electron microscope studies of heteroduplex DNA from a deletion mutant of bacteriophage phiX-174

J Kim, P A Sharp, N Davidson

Electron microscope studies of heteroduplex DNA from a deletion mutant of bacteriophage phiX-174

J Kim et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1972 Jul.

Abstract

A population of double-stranded replicative form of DNA molecules from bacteriophage varphiX-174 carrying a deletion of about 9% of the wild-type DNA has been discovered in a sample cultivated under conditions where the phage lysozyme gene is nonessential. The structures of deleted monomers, dimers, and trimers were studied by the electron microscope heteroduplex method. The dimers and trimers are head-to-tail repeats of the deleted monomers. Some interesting examples of the dynamical phenomenon of branch migration in vitro have been observed in heteroduplexes of deleted dimer and trimer strands with undeleted monomer viral strands from the wild-type phage.

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