Isolation and Characterization of Conditional Alleles of Bacteriophage T4 Genes uvsX and uvsY

AUTOR(ES)

Conkling, Mark A.

RESUMO

The bacteriophage T4 uvsW, uvsX and uvsY gene functions are required for wild-type levels of recombination and for normal survival and mutagenesis after treatments with ultraviolet (UV) and ionizing radiations. The ability of uvsX and uvsY mutations to suppress the lethality of gene 49 mutations was used to select temperature-sensitive and amber alleles of these two genes. (uvsW mutations do not suppress gene 49 mutations.) A simple and powerful complementation test was developed to assist in assigning uvs mutations to genes. The amber alleles of uvsX and uvsY behave as simple null alleles, fully suppressing a gene 49 defect, enhancing UV killing and abolishing UV mutagenesis. However, the properties of the ts alleles of uvsX and uvsY demonstrated that suppression of a gene 49 defect, sensitivity to UV-induced inactivation and UV mutability can be partially uncoupled. These results prompt the hypothesis that radiation mutagenesis occurs during DNA chain elongation past template damage within a recombinational intermediate rather than within a conventional replication fork.

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