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Mu phage
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Bacteriophage Mu or phage Mu is a bacteriophage, a type of virus that infects bacteria. It uses DNA-based transposition to integrate its genome into the genome of the host cell that it is infecting. It can then use transposition to initiate its viral DNA replication. Once the viral DNA is inserted into the bacteria, the Mu transposase protein/enzyme in the cell recognises the recombination sites at the ends of the viral DNA and binds to them, allowing the process of replicating the viral DNA or embedding it into the host genome. [1]
References
References
- ↑ Alberts B, Johnson A, Lewis J, Raff M, Roberts K, Walter P (2002). Molecular Biology of the Cell (4th ed. ed.). Garland. ISBN 0815332181.