PMID:2185133

Citation	Wu, TH, Clarke, CH and Marinus, MG (1990) Specificity of Escherichia coli mutD and mutL mutator strains. Gene 87:1-5
Abstract	The products of the mutD and mutL genes of Escherichia coli are involved in proofreading by DNA polymerase III and DNA adenine MTase (Dam)-dependent mismatch repair, respectively. We have used the plasmid-borne bacteriophage P22 mnt gene as a target to determine the types of mutations produced in mutL25 and mutD5 strains. Of 60 mutations identified from mutL25 cells, 52 were transition mutations and of these the AT----GC subset predominated (40 out of 52). The majority of AT----GC mutations were found at the same three sites (hotspots). In contrast, transversion mutations (47 out of 76) were found about twice as frequently as transitions (28 out of 76) from mutD5 bacteria. Two hotspots were identified but at different sites than those in the mutL25 cells. These results suggest that the proofreading function of DNA polymerase III primarily repairs potential transversion mutations while Dam-dependent mismatch repair rectifies potential transition mutations.
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Keywords	Coliphages/genetics; DNA Polymerase III/metabolism; DNA Repair; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Escherichia coli/genetics; Escherichia coli Proteins; Genes, Bacterial; Genes, Viral; Methyltransferases/metabolism; Mutation; Plasmids; Promoter Regions, Genetic; Site-Specific DNA-Methyltransferase (Adenine-Specific)
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