Nonsense Mutants in the rII A Cistron of Bacteriophage T4 1

AUTOR(ES)

Schwartz, Robert D.

RESUMO

After in vitro treatment of bacteriophage T4 with hydroxylamine (HA), 54 nonsense mutants in the rII A cistron were isolated. These mutants were characterized by growth on suppressor strains of Escherichia coli, and the mutational sites were mapped in the rII A cistron. Twenty-five (9 sites) were amber (UAG), 20 (6 sites) were opal (UGA), and 9 (6 sites) were ochre (UAA). Mapping experiments further indicated that there were three closely linked pairs of amber and opal mutations, conceivably involving mutations occurring in adjacent nucleotides. Based on the specificity of HA mutagenesis (GC → AT), the amino acid codons in which the mutations occurred have been inferred. It is suggested that the three amber-opal pairs arose in tryptophan codons (UGG) and the six ochre mutants arose in glutamine codons (CAA). The six unpaired ambers and the three unpaired opals have been tentatively assigned to glutamine codons (CAG) and arginine codons (CGA), respectively, in the wild-type phage.

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