Phage-exclusion enzymes: a bonanza of biochemical and cell biology reagents?

Molecular Microbiology
L Snyder

Abstract

Many parasitic DNA elements including prophages and plasmids synthesize proteins that kill the cell after infection by other phages, thereby blocking the multiplication of the infecting phages and their spread to other nearby cells. The only known function of these proteins is to exclude the infecting phage, and therefore to protect their hosts, and thereby the DNA elements themselves, against phage contagion. Many of these exclusions have been studied extensively and some have long been used in molecular genetics, but their molecular basis was unknown. The most famous of the phage exclusions are those caused by the Rex proteins of lambda prophage. The Rex exclusions are still not completely understood, but recent evidence has begun to lead to more specific models for their action. One of the Rex proteins, RexA, may be activated by a DNA-protein complex, perhaps a recombination or replication intermediate, produced after phage infection. In the activated state, RexA may activate RexB, which has been proposed to be a membrane ion channel that allows the passage of monovalent cations, destroying the cellular membrane potential, and killing the cell. We now understand two other phage exclusions at the molecular level which use str...Continue Reading

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