The DNA gyrase of Escherichia coli participates in the formation of a spontaneous deletion by recA-independent recombination in vivo
- 1 February 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Molecular Genetics and Genomics
- Vol. 220 (3), 345-352
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00391737
Abstract
A system for detecting a spontaneous deletion in Escherichia coli was developed and the role of DNA gyrase in deletion formation was studied. A derivative of λplac5, λAM36, was isolated in which whole pBR322 DNA was inserted in the lacZ gene and 227 by of the lac gene duplicated at both sides of the pBR322 DNA. E. coli lac −strains lysogenized by λAM36 had a Lac− phenotype and segregated Lac– revertants. Sequence analyses showed that the revertant was formed by a deletion that eliminated the inserted pBR322 DNA and one copy of the duplicated segments. The frequency of lac – revertant formation was independent of recA function, was increased by oxolinic acid, an inhibitor of DNA gyrase, but was not increased in a lysogen of a nalidixic acid-resistant derivative. The reversion frequencies of temperature sensitive mutants of gyrA gene are 10 to 100 times lower than that of the wild-type strain. These results indicate that the DNA gyrase of E. coli participated in the in vivo deletion formation resulting from the direct repeats.This publication has 46 references indexed in Scilit:
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