The secret lives of mycobacteriophages

GF Hatfull - Advances in virus research, 2012 - Elsevier
The study of mycobacteriophages provides insights into viral diversity and evolution, as well
as the genetics and physiology of their pathogenic hosts. Genomic characterization of 80 …

Molecular genetics of mycobacteriophages

GF Hatfull - Molecular genetics of mycobacteria, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Mycobacteriophages are viruses that infect mycobacterial hosts including Mycobacterium
smegmatis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The first mycobacteriophages were isolated in …

Purification and characterization of repressor of temperate S. aureus phage Φ11

M Das, T Ganguly, P Chattoraj, PK Chanda… - BMB …, 2007 - koreascience.kr
To gain insight into the structure and function of repressor proteins of bacteriophages of
gram-positive bacteria, repressor of temperate Staphylococcus aureus phage ${\phi} 11 …

Repressor of temperate mycobacteriophage L1 harbors a stable C-terminal domain and binds to different asymmetric operator DNAs with variable affinity

T Ganguly, A Bandhu, P Chattoraj, PK Chanda, M Das… - Virology journal, 2007 - Springer
Background Lysogenic mode of life cycle of a temperate bacteriophage is generally
maintained by a protein called'repressor'. Repressor proteins of temperate lambdoid phages …

Regions and residues of an asymmetric operator DNA interacting with the monomeric repressor of temperate mycobacteriophage L1

A Bandhu, T Ganguly, B Jana, R Mondal, S Sau - Biochemistry, 2010 - ACS Publications
Previously, the repressor protein of mycobacteriophage L1 bound to two operator DNAs with
dissimilar affinity. Surprisingly, the putative operator consensus sequence, 5 …

Antagonistic effects Na+ and Mg2+ on the structure, function, and stability of mycobacteriophage L1 repressor

A Bandhu, T Ganguly, PK Chanda, M Das, B Jana… - BMB …, 2009 - koreascience.kr
Temperate mycobacteriophage L1 encodes an unusual repressor (CI) for regulating its lytic-
lysogenic switching and, in contrast to the repressors of most temperate phages, it binds to …

Biochemical characterization of L1 repressor mutants with altered operator DNA binding activity

A Bandhu, T Ganguly, B Jana, A Chakravarty… - …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
A mycobacteriophage-specific repressor with the enhanced operator DNA binding activity at
32° C and no activity at 42° C has not been generated yet though it has potential in …