Temperature-sensitive deoxyribonucleic acid replication in a dnaC mutant of Bacillus subtilis.
AUTOR(ES)
Andersen, J J
RESUMO
A temperature-sensitive mutant of Bacillus subtilis is defective in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesis, contains a lesion in the dnaC locus, and is not primarily an initiation mutant. The amount of DNA synthesized by this mutant at temperatures above 40 C decreases with increasing temperature. DNA synthesis resumes within 20 min after the temperature is lowered to 30 C. In the presence of chloramphenical, DNA synthesis begins at a reduced rate after the temperature is lowered to 30 C. Spores germinated at 46 C cannot initiate DNA replication. The capacity for residual DNA synthesis is stable at the restrictive temperature during inhibition of DNA synthesis. When the temperature is lowered to 30 C after a period of incubation at 43 C, DNA synthesis starts at the origin of the chromosome as well as at preexisting growing points. Similar DNA synthesis patterns are found in mutant cells in vivo and after toluene treatment.
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