Phage phi 29 regulatory protein p4 stabilizes the binding of the RNA polymerase to the late promoter in a process involving direct protein-protein contacts.

Míreanna Comhchosúla

• The main early and late promoters of Bacillus subtilis phage phi 29 form unstable open complexes with sigma A-RNA polymerase that are stabilized by DNA supercoiling.
  le: Rojo, F, et al.
  Foilsithe: (1993)
• Identification of the sequences recognized by phage phi 29 transcriptional activator: possible interaction between the activator and the RNA polymerase.
  le: Nuez, B, et al.
  Foilsithe: (1991)
• Replication of phage phi 29 DNA with purified terminal protein and DNA polymerase: synthesis of full-length phi 29 DNA.
  le: Blanco, L, et al.
  Foilsithe: (1985)
• Activation and repression of transcription at two different phage phi29 promoters are mediated by interaction of the same residues of regulatory protein p4 with RNA polymerase.
  le: Monsalve, M, et al.
  Foilsithe: (1996)
• A DNA curvature can substitute phage phi 29 regulatory protein p4 when acting as a transcriptional repressor.
  le: Rojo, F, et al.
  Foilsithe: (1991)