Title | DNA polymerase III from Escherichia coli cells expressing mutA mistranslator tRNA is error-prone. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2002 |
Authors | Mamun, AAmar MAl, Marians, KJ, M Humayun, Z |
Journal | J Biol Chem |
Volume | 277 |
Issue | 48 |
Pagination | 46319-27 |
Date Published | 2002 Nov 29 |
ISSN | 0021-9258 |
Keywords | Base Sequence, DNA Polymerase III, DNA Replication, DNA, Bacterial, Escherichia coli, Genes, Bacterial, Molecular Sequence Data, Mutation, Protein Biosynthesis, RNA, Transfer |
Abstract | Translational stress-induced mutagenesis (TSM) refers to the elevated mutagenesis observed in Escherichia coli cells in which mistranslation has been increased as a result of mutations in tRNA genes (such as mutA) or by exposure to streptomycin. TSM does not require lexA-regulated SOS functions but is suppressed in cells defective for homologous recombination genes. Crude cell-free extracts from TSM-induced E. coli strains express an error-prone DNA polymerase. To determine whether DNA polymerase III is involved in the TSM phenotype, we first asked if the phenotype is expressed in cells defective for all four of the non-replicative DNA polymerases, namely polymerase I, II, IV, and V. By using a colony papillation assay based on the reversion of a lacZ mutant, we show that the TSM phenotype is expressed in such cells. Second, we asked if pol III from TSM-induced cells is error-prone. By purifying DNA polymerase III* from TSM-induced and control cells, and by testing its fidelity on templates bearing 3,N(4)-ethenocytosine (a mutagenic DNA lesion), as well as on undamaged DNA templates, we show here that polymerase III* purified from mutA cells is error-prone as compared with that from control cells. These findings suggest that DNA polymerase III is modified in TSM-induced cells. |
DOI | 10.1074/jbc.M206856200 |
Alternate Journal | J Biol Chem |
PubMed ID | 12324458 |
Grant List | R37 GM034557 / GM / NIGMS NIH HHS / United States GM34557 / GM / NIGMS NIH HHS / United States GM58253 / GM / NIGMS NIH HHS / United States |
DNA polymerase III from Escherichia coli cells expressing mutA mistranslator tRNA is error-prone.
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