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Title	Identification and characterisation of a transducing phage containing the gene for ribosomal protein S1 of Escherichia coli
Author	Noble, Jonathan Charles Stirling
Description	Thesis (M.Sc.) -- Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1983. Medicine
Date	1982
Pagination	xi, 120 leaves : ill.
Subject	Escherichia coli; Ribosomes;
Degree	M.Sc.
Degree Grantor	Memorial University of Newfoundland. Faculty of Medicine
Discipline	Medicine
Language	Eng
Notes	References : leaves 92-98.
Abstract	The recent mapping for the gene for ribosomal protein S1 (rpsA) at 20 minutes on the E. coli chromosome (Ono, M., Michihiko, K. & Mizushima, S. (1979) Mol. Gen. Genet. 174, 11-15), has been exploited in studies aimed at the identification of a transducing phage carrying this locus. The coding capacities of a ΛaroA transducing phage containing a portion of this chromosomal region (R. Weisberg, personal communication), have been analysed in an UVL irradiation and infection system by a combination of techniques of immunoprecipitation and SDS and two dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. This analysis has indicated that among the six or so bacterial proteins encoded by this phage, one comigrating with pure S1 at pI 5-6 and Mγ = 70, 000 reacts specifically with antiserum developed against the purified protein. This species which is indentified as ribosomal protein S1 by these criteria, appears to be expressed under the direction of a bacterial promoter. -- A detailed restriction map of the genome of the ΛaroA transducing phage has been constructed from the results of numerous single and double enzyme digestions. This information has permitted an analysis of the relationship between the arrangement of bacterial DNA sequences in the insert contained by the transducing phage and that of the chromosomal region from which it was derived. The similarity of structure indicated by this analysis supports identification of the bacterial activity governing expression of rpsA in the phage context as the normal chromosomal promoter for this gene.
Type	Text
Resource Type	Electronic thesis or dissertation
Format	Image/jpeg; Application/pdf
Source	Paper copy kept in the Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial University Libraries
Local Identifier	75251224
Rights	The author retains copyright ownership and moral rights in this thesis. Neither the thesis nor substantial extracts from it may be printed or otherwise reproduced without the author's permission.
Collection	Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Scanning Status	Completed
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