PMID:11278066
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Prikryl, J, Hendricks, EC and Kuempel, PL (2001) DNA degradation in the terminus region of resolvase mutants of Escherichia coli, and suppression of this degradation and the Dif phenotype by recD. Biochimie 83:171-6 |
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| Abstract |
We recently proposed that guillotining of dimer chromosomes occurs at cell division in resolvase mutants of Escherichia coli. This was based on the abnormal pattern of cell division observed in 10-14% of the cells in microcolonies of xerC, xerD and dif mutants. A prediction of this guillotining is that DNA degradation should occur in the terminus region, in the vicinity of the dif locus. We have tested this by DNA-DNA hybridization and have observed that dif was absent in about 22% of the chromosomes in exponentially growing xerC mutants. A locus 206 kb from dif was not affected by this degradation. We have also observed that degradation did not occur in xerC recD mutants, and that the low efficiency of plating associated with the Dif phenotype was suppressed in this strain. A model is proposed in which rapid degradation of the terminus region does not occur in recD mutants following guillotining, and that this permits the initiation of repair of broken dimer chromosomes prior to completion of cell division. |
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| Keywords |
Cell Division; Chromosome Mapping; Chromosomes, Bacterial/metabolism; DNA Replication; DNA, Bacterial/genetics; DNA, Bacterial/metabolism; Escherichia coli/genetics; Mutation; Phenotype; Recombinases; Recombination, Genetic; Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid; Transposases/genetics |
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