Functional interchangeability of DNA replication genes in Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli demonstrated by a general complementation procedure.
Functional interchangeability of DNA replication genes in Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli demonstrated by a general complementation procedure.
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通过一般互补程序证明了鼠伤寒沙门氏菌和大肠杆菌中 DNA 复制基因的功能互换性。
DOI:
10.1093/genetics/108.1.1
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发表时间:
1984
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影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Botstein,D
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作者:
Maurer,R;Osmond,BC;Shekhtman,E;Wong,A;Botstein,D
Twenty-four genes fromSalmonella typhimuriumthat affect DNA replication were isolated from a λ-Salmonella genomic library by lysogenic complementation of temperature-sensitive mutants of Salmonella orE. coli, using a new plaque complementation assay. The complementing λ clones, which make red plaques in this assay, and noncomplementing mutant derivatives, which make uncolored plaques, were used to further characterize the temperature-sensitive Salmonella mutants and to establish the functional similarity ofE. coliand Salmonella DNA replication genes. For 17 of 18E. colimutants representing distinct loci, a Salmonella gene that complemented the mutant was found. This result indicates that single Salmonella replication proteins are able to function in otherwise allE. colireplication complexes and suggests that the detailed properties of Salmonella andE. colireplication proteins are very similar. The other seven Salmonella genes that were cloned were unrelated functionally to anyE. coligenes examined. —As an aid to the derivation of chromosomal mutations affecting some of the cloned genes, a general method was developed for placing a transposon in the Salmonella chromosome in a segment corresponding to cloned DNA. Chromosomal mutations were derived in Salmonella affecting a gene (dnaA) that was cloned by complementation of anE. colimutant by using the transposon-encoded drug resistance as a selectable marker in local mutagenesis.