Mutations in the mutY gene of Escherichia coli enhance the frequency of targeted G:C → T:A transversions induced by a single 8-oxoguanine residue in single-stranded DNA
- 1 May 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Molecular Genetics and Genomics
- Vol. 239 (1-2), 72-76
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00281603
Abstract
Oxidative damage to guanine in DNA results in the formation of 8-oxoguanine, which has been shown to induce G → T transversions targeted to this site. The mutagenicity of this lesion was studied in several mutator strains of Escherichia coli, using single-stranded DNA containing a single 8-oxoguanine residue. The frequencies of targeted G → T transversions increased markedly in mutY strains, while this mutagenic event was not affected in mutM or mutS strains. Introdution of a mutM mutation into a mutY strain caused a somewhat higher frequency of G → T transversions than that in the mutY strain and the effect of a mutS mutation was marginal. We conclude that the mutY gene plays a crucial role in preventing targeted G → T mutations derived from misreplication of the 8-oxoguanine-containing template DNA.Keywords
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