PMID:1320188
| Citation |
Koch, WH, Ennis, DG, Levine, AS and Woodgate, R (1992) Escherichia coli umuDC mutants: DNA sequence alterations and UmuD cleavage. Mol. Gen. Genet. 233:443-8 |
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| Abstract |
The products of the chromosomally encoded umuDC genes are directly required for mutagenesis in Escherichia coli. Strains with either umuD or umuC mutations are rendered phenotypically non-mutable. To ascertain the molecular basis of this non-mutability, we determined the DNA sequence alterations of seven chromosomal umuDC mutants. Six mutants (umuD1, umuD44, umuD77, umuC36, umuC25, and umuC104) were found to be single base-pair substitutions that resulted in missense mutations. The Tn5 transposon insertion mutation (umuC122) resulted in a missense mutation followed immediately by a termination codon, producing a truncated UmuC protein lacking 102 carboxyl-terminal amino acids. All of the mutations were found to reside in regions of the UmuD and UmuC proteins that share high homology with analogous proteins. Chemiluminescent immunoassays revealed that the umuD1, umuD44, and umuD77 mutations all resulted in a non-cleavable UmuD protein. Because UmuD cleavage is a prerequisite for mutagenesis, the lack of UmuD processing appears to be the molecular basis for the non-mutable phenotype in these strains. These studies re-emphasize the critical nature of the RecA-mediated cleavage of UmuD for inducible mutagenesis and provide insights into the functional domains of the UmuC protein. |
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Bacterial Proteins/chemistry; Bacterial Proteins/genetics; Bacterial Proteins/metabolism; Base Sequence; DNA, Bacterial/genetics; DNA-Directed DNA Polymerase; Escherichia coli/genetics; Escherichia coli Proteins; Immunoassay; Molecular Sequence Data; Mutagenesis/genetics; Mutation/genetics; Polymerase Chain Reaction; SOS Response (Genetics)/genetics |
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