Thermal Enhancement of Ultraviolet Mutability in a tif-1 uvrA Derivative of Escherichia coli B/r: Evidence That Ultraviolet Mutagenesis Depends upon an Inducible Function
AUTOR(ES)
Witkin, Evelyn M.
RESUMO
Inhibition of DNA replication in E. coli results in coordinate expression of a cluster of diverse functions, including prophage induction and filamentous growth, many of which are thermally inducible, without inhibition of DNA synthesis, in strains carrying a mutation in the “tif” locus. It has been proposed that one of the inducible functions in this cluster is responsible for the ultraviolet mutability of E. coli. As a test of this hypothesis, the effect of postirradiation temperature elevation on ultraviolet mutability was compared in strains differing by a tif mutation. In a tif+ strain, raising the temperature to 42° after irradiation did not change the frequency of induced mutations to tryptophan-independence. Similar treatment of a tif-1 strain resulted in as much as a 10-fold increase in the induced mutation yield. Thermal enhancement of ultraviolet mutability in the tif-1 strain was prevented or promoted by agents known to exert parallel effects on thermal induction of lambda prophage in tif lysogens. The results support the hypothesis that ultraviolet mutability in E. coli depends upon an inducible function that is normally expressed only when DNA replication is inhibited.
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