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Morphogenetic genes C and Nu3 overlap in bacteriophage λ

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In bacteriophage λ, genes C and Nu3, two of the four cistrons which are essential for normal prohead formation, have overlapping nucleotide sequences. These genes are translated in the same reading frame so that the Nu3 protein is identical to the COOH-terminal one-third of the C protein. This structural relationship may provide for the functional interaction of the C and Nu3 proteins through their regions of structural homology during prohead assembly. The in-phase overlapping organisation of genes may constitute a general strategy to facilitate the mutual interaction of a pair of proteins through their common structural domains.

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