In Vitro Packaging of Damaged Bacteriophage T7 DNA

摘要

Experiments using in vitro packaging to monitor the biological activity of DNA recovered after in vitro repair, replication, and recombination reactions are described. These results suggest that the in vitro systems mimic the in vivo situation sufficiently well to allow generation (or restoration) of DNA molecules which can be encapsulated to form fully viable T7 phage particles. The in vitro packaging system has proved to be a convenient and relatively sensitive means for determining the amount of biological damage present in T7 DNA and for examining the response of various DNA metabolic systems to that damage. (ERA citation 05:029640)