Molecular cloning of a gene which regulates the adaptive response to alkylating agents in Escherichia coli (original) (raw)
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The ada + gene of E. coli is a regulatory gene of the adaptive response to simple alkylating agents. ada mutants are sensitive to both the mutagenicity and toxicity of alkylating agents, and are unable to induce O6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase and 3-methyladenine DNA glycosylase II. The ada + gene was cloned from wild type E. coli B by ligating bacterial DNA partially digested with _Sau_3A into the cosmid vector pJB8. The hybrid cosmid, pCS33, conveyed N-methyl-N′-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine resistance to ada mutants of E. coli B and E. coli K12, and resulted in the constitutive synthesis of the two DNA repair enzymes at high levels. An alk mutation, which results in a deficiency of only the DNA glycosylase, was not complemented by this cosmid. It was concluded that the product of the ada + gene is a positive regulator of the adaptive response. The cosmid insert DNA was subcloned into the plasmid vector pAT153, and the ada + plasmids pCS42 and pCS58 selected. The ada + gene located in PCS58 by transposon mutagenesis and subcloning. Two polypeptides of Mr 37,000 and 27,000, were identified in ‘maxicells’ as products of the ada + gene(s). It is as yet unclear whether they represent different forms of the same gene product, or are encoded by separate ada + genes within the same operon.
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Sedgwick, B. Molecular cloning of a gene which regulates the adaptive response to alkylating agents in Escherichia coli.Molec. Gen. Genet. 191, 466–472 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00425764
- Received: 22 April 1983
- Issue Date: January 1983
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00425764