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Genetic mapping of the amino-terminal domain of bacteriophage T4 DNA polymerase
M B Hughes et al. Genetics. 1987 Mar.
Abstract
The DNA polymerase of bacteriophage T4 is a multifunctional enzyme that harbors DNA-binding, DNA-synthesizing and exonucleolytic activities. We have cloned in bacterial plasmids about 99% of the structural gene for this enzyme (T4 gene 43). The gene was cloned in six contiguous 5'-terminal DNA fragments that defined seven intragenic mapping regions. Escherichia coli hosts harboring recombinant plasmids carrying the gene 43 subsegments were used in marker-rescue experiments that assigned a large number of ts and nonsense polymerase mutations to different physical domains of the structural gene. Conspicuously, only one missense mutation in a large collection of mutants mapped in the 5'-terminal 450 base-pair segment of the approximately 2700 base-pair gene. To test if this indicated a DNA polymerase domain that is relatively noncritical for biological activity, we mutagenized a recombinant plasmid carrying this 5'-terminal region and generated new conditional-lethal mutations that mapped therein. We identified five new ts sites, some having mutated at high frequency (nitrosoguanidine hot spots). New ts mutations were also isolated in phage genes 62 and 44, which map upstream of gene 43 on the T4 chromosome. A preliminary examination of physiological consequences of the ts gene 43 mutations showed that they exhibit effects similar to those of ts lesions that map in other gene 43 segments: some were mutators, some derepressed gene 43 protein synthesis and they varied in the severity of their effects on T4-induced DNA synthesis at nonpermissive temperatures. The availability of the gene 43 clones should make it possible to isolate a variety of lesions that affect different activities of the T4 DNA polymerase and help to define the different domains of this multifunctional protein.
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