Does lambda DNA packaging require any enzymes or ATP hydrolysis? Explain
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Yes lambda DNA packaging require enzymes and ATP hydrolysis . Because lambda DNA terminase is a enzyme which cleaves virion length chromosomes from multigenomic concatemers and to introduce the DNA into a process called packaging. And ATP hydrolysis used in DNA translocation.
You can read details about it from some papers.
Like 'the large terminase DNA packaging motor grips DNA with its ATPase domain for cleavage by the flexible nuclease domain'. And some other paper from Google scholar.
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