PMID:12692132

Citation	Fang, WH, Wang, BJ, Wang, CH, Lee, SJ, Chang, YT, Chuang, YK and Lee, CN (2003) DNA loop repair by Escherichia coli cell extracts. J. Biol. Chem. 278:22446-52
Abstract	The nick-directed DNA repair efficiency of a set of M13mp18-derived heteroduplexes containing 8-, 12-, 16-, 22-, 27-, 45-, and 429-nucleotide loops was determined by in vitro assay. Unpaired nucleotides of each heteroduplex reside within overlapping recognition sites for two restriction endonucleases, permitting independent evaluation of repair occurring on either DNA strand. Our results show that a strand break located either 3' or 5' to the loop is sufficient to direct heterology repair to the nicked strand in Escherichia coli extracts. Strand-specific repair by this system requires Mg2+ and the four dNTPs and is equally efficient on insertions and deletions. This activity is distinct from the MutHLS mismatch repair pathway. Strand specificity and repair efficiency are largely independent of the GATC methylation state of the DNA and presence of the products of mismatch repair genes mutH, mutL, and mutS. This study provides evidence for a loop repair pathway in E. coli that is distinct from conventional mismatch repair.
Links	PubMed Online version:10.1074/jbc.M302585200
Keywords	Base Sequence; DNA Repair/genetics; DNA, Bacterial/genetics; DNA, Circular/genetics; Escherichia coli/genetics; Genetic Markers; Plasmids; Restriction Mapping
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