PROPHAGE INDUCTION AND CELL-DIVISION IN ESCHERICHIA-COLI .1. FURTHER CHARACTERIZATION OF THERMOSENSITIVE MUTATION TIF-1 WHOSE EXPRESSION MIMICS EFFECT OF UV IRRADIATION
PROPHAGE INDUCTION AND CELL-DIVISION IN ESCHERICHIA-COLI .1. FURTHER CHARACTERIZATION OF THERMOSENSITIVE MUTATION TIF-1 WHOSE EXPRESSION MIMICS EFFECT OF UV IRRADIATION
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DOI:
10.1007/bf00269133
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发表时间:
1972-01-01
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GEORGE, J
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CASTELLAZZI, M;BUTTIN, G;GEORGE, J
An apparently single pleiotropic mutationtif-1causingthermalinduction of λ and thermalfilamentation is mapped close torecAand is shown to be responsible for the thermosensitive phenotype ofE. coliC 600 T44 (Goldthwait and Jacob, 1964). Expression of thetif-1mutation mimics the effect of UV irradiation in causing severalrecA+-dependent events: (1) prophage induction (2) cell filamentation (both previously observed by Goldthwait and Jacob, 1964, and by Kirby, Jacob and Goldthwait, 1967) and, (3) survival of infecting UV-irradiated bacteriophage λ, and (4) mutagenesis of UV-irradiated λ. Expression of thetif-1mutation differs from the effect of UV irradiation in two respects: (1) It has no apparent effect on bacterial DNA structure as measured biochemically (Kirbyet al., 1967; Ruffet al., 1971) or as measured physiologically here by the capacity for conjugal transfer of DNA or by the capacity for causing indirect induction of λ which normally occurs after the introduction of a UV-irradiated sexual factor into a lysogenic F−recipient (George and Devoret, 1971) (2) It does not increaserecA+-dependent recombination between an F-lac+episome and the chromosome or between two recombination deficient λint redphages. These results suggest that thetif+gene product participates in a reaction common to the pathway of UV induction and to the pathway of repair of UV-induced lesions in DNA.