PMID:6098799

Citation	Clarke, ND, Kvaal, M and Seeberg, E (1984) Cloning of Escherichia coli genes encoding 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylases I and II. Mol. Gen. Genet. 197:368-72
Abstract	We have constructed two recombinant plasmids which harbour functions involved in DNA repair of alkylation damage in Escherichia coli. One plasmid carries the tag+ gene encoding 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase I while the other carries alkA+ encoding 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase II. The plasmids were isolated from plasmid stocks carrying total cellular DNA by selection for their ability to complement the methylmethanesulphonate(MMS)-sensitive phenotype of an E. coli mutant (tag ada) deficient in both 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylases I and II. Both plasmids increase the plating efficiency of such a mutant on methylmethanesulphonate plates by a factor of more than 10(5). The tag gene is located on a 6 (kbp) HindIII fragment, and the presence of the tag plasmid in the cells results in 15-fold overproduction of 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase I. The other plasmid restores 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase II deficiency in alkA mutant cells, and results in 3-fold overproduction of this enzyme after alkylation induction. The induction is ada+-dependent and we conclude that this plasmid contains the structural gene for 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase II, including its control region responding to alkylation induction. However, the plasmid does not complement fully the MMS-sensitive phenotype of alkA mutants which suggests that the plasmid may not include the entire alkA operon.
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Keywords	Cloning, Molecular; DNA Glycosylases; DNA Repair; DNA Restriction Enzymes/diagnostic use; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Escherichia coli/genetics; Gene Expression Regulation; Genes, Bacterial; Methylation; N-Glycosyl Hydrolases/genetics; Plasmids
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