Levels of chromosomally encoded Umu proteins and requirements for in vivo UmuD cleavage - PubMed (original) (raw)
Levels of chromosomally encoded Umu proteins and requirements for in vivo UmuD cleavage
R Woodgate et al. Mol Gen Genet. 1991 Sep.
Abstract
Most of the inducible mutagenesis observed in Escherichia coli after treatment with many DNA damaging agents is dependent upon the products of the umuD,C operon. RecA-mediated proteolytic processing of UmuD yields a carboxyl-terminal fragment (UmuD') that is active for mutagenesis. Processing of UmuD is therefore a critical step in the fixation of mutations. In this paper we have analyzed the requirements for UmuD processing in vivo. Standard immuno-detection assays, coupled with a sensitive chemiluminescence detection assay, have been utilized to probe levels of chromosomally encoded Umu proteins from whole-cell E. coli extracts. We found that the derepression of additional SOS gene products, other than RecA, was not required for UmuD processing. Moreover, efficient cleavage of UmuD was observed only in the presence of elevated levels of activated RecA, suggesting that efficient processing would occur only under conditions of severe DNA damage. Detection of chromosomally encoded Umu proteins has allowed us, for the first time, to measure directly the cellular steady-state levels of these proteins under various SOS inducing conditions. UmuD was present at approximately 180 copies per uninduced cell and was measured at approximately 2400 copies per cell in strains that lacked a functional repressor. Induced levels of UmuC were approximately 12-fold lower than UmuD with approximately 200 molecules per cell. These levels of cellular UmuC protein suggest that it functions through specific protein-DNA or protein-protein interactions, possibly as a lesion recognition protein or by interacting with DNA polymerase III.
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