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A detailed molecular dissection of the yeast mitochondrial genome can be made with restriction endonucleases that generate site-specific cuts in DNA. The ordering of restriction fragments provides the basis of the physical mapping of mitochondrial transcripts and antibiotic resistance (antR) loci, and is a means of analyzing the molecular organization of mtDNA of petite and mit- deletion mutants. We have previously mapped the sites in the mtDNA of yeast strain MH41-7B recognized by the endonucleases Eco RI, Hpa I, Hind III, Bam HI, Sal I, Pst I, and Hha I, providing a total of 41 cleavage sites. We have now mapped the sites recognized by the endonucleases Xba I, Hinc II, Bgl II, Pvu II, Xho I, and Sst I, which make 6, 13, 5, 6, 2, and 2 cuts, respectively. Fragment maps for each of these endonuclease sites were derived by analysis of the products of double-enzyme digests and by hybridization of 3H-cRNA probes transcribed from low-kinetic-complexity petite mtDNAs to restriction fragments generated by various combinations of enzymes.
Mol Gen Genet 1979 Feb 16
PMID:Physical mapping of the Xba I, Hinc II, Bgl II, Xho I, Sst I, and Pvu II restriction endonuclease cleavage fragments of mitochondrial DNA of S. cerevisiae. 37 13

Escherichia coli mutants defective in DNA uracil N-glycosidase (ung-) or endonuclease VI active against apurinic/apyrimidinic sites in DNA (xthA-) exhibit enhanced sensitivity towards 5-bromodeoxyuridine relative to the wild type strain, pointing to involvement of these enzymes in repair of bromouracil-induced lesions in DNA. Mutants defective in DNA polymerase I, either in polymerizing activity (polAl-) or (5' leads to 3')-exonuclease activity (polA107-) exhibit unusually high sensitivity (including marked lethality) in the presence of 5-bromodeoxyuridine. The results indicate that DNA polymerase I, and its associated (5'--3')-exonuclease activity, are involved in repair of bromouracil-induced lesions and are not readily replaced, if at all, by DNA polymerases II and III. Thermosensitive mutant in DNA ligase gene (lig ts7) shows high sensitivity towards 5-bromodeoxyuridine at 42 degrees C indicating the role of the enzyme in repair of bromouracil-induced lesions in DNA. Involvement of DNA uracil N-glycosidase, and endonuclease active against apurinic/apyrimidinic sites in recognition and repair of 5-bromouracil-induced damage permits of some inferences regarding the nature of this damage (lesions), in particular dehalogenation of incorporated bromouracil to uracil residues.
Mol Gen Genet 1979 Mar 20
PMID:Genetic evidence for the nature, and excision repair, of DNA lesions resulting from incorporation of 5-bromouracil. 37 26

The method of isolation and partial purification of DNA-cytosine-methyltransferase (DC-methylase) from E. coli C is described. The enzyme underwent approximately 100-fold purification. The obtained preparation of DC-methylase can be additionally considerably purified by sedimentation in sucrose gradient. Native molecular weight of DC-methylase from E. coli C. is 70,000. The activity of enzyme does not depend on the Mg2+ ions. DC-methylase E. coli C provides DNA of lambda phage in vitro with full resistance against restriction endonuclease EcoRII. In DNA methylated by DC-methylase the modified cytosine, mainly in C-MC and C-MC-T sequences, corresponds to the pyrimidine sequences of specific site EcoRII. DNA of lambda.B phage contains approximately 80 sites for modification by DC-methylase E. coli C. The results obtained point to the same specificity in vitro of DNA-cytosine-methylase E. coli C and DNA-methylase EcoRII.
Mol Biol (Mosk)
PMID:[Isolation and properties of DNA-cytosine methyltransferase from Escherichia coli C]. 37 62

The molecular weight distributions of fragments obtained after endonuclease treatment of DNA were studied. DNA's from pigeon and E. coli and restriction enzymes EcoRI and BamHI were used. The samples of 14C- and 3H-labelled DNA were treated by endonucleases, separated electrophoretically in 1% agatose gels, and radioactivity distributions along gels were measured. From these data weight and number distributions and the average molecular weights of DNA fragments were determined. EcoRI-fragments of phage DNA were used as standards for the molecular weight calibration. The experimental results are compared with the expected data calculated from the DNA GC content. The molecular weight distribution of fragments and the average molecular weights of BamHI-fragments of pigeon DNA and EcoRI- and BamHI-fragments of E. coli DNA differed from random ones. It is suggested that certain genomes contain regions in which the probability of endonuclease cleavage strongly differs from the average probability of such a cleavage for the entire genome.
Mol Biol (Mosk)
PMID:[Distribution of DNA sequences recognized by specific endonucleases]. 37 53

Hybrid plasmids were constructed from fragments of F'ara episomes formed by the restriction endonuclease EcoRI and a linear form of the plasmid ColE1 created by cleavage with EcoRI. Hybrid plasmids were constructed containing the entire ara region or the ara region with various parts deleted. E. coli K12 host strains were constructed which contained different deletions of the ara region. The hybrid plasmids were transferred to those strains whose ara deletion complemented that of the plasmid. The initial differential rates of synthesis of L-arabinose isomerase, the product of the araA gene, were determined for the Ara+, plasmid containing strains. These studies demonstrated that strains containing delta(araOIBA)718 produce elevated levels of araC protein, suggesting the araC promoter has been altered by this deletion. Evidence is also presented which suggests that araC protein activates the ara-BAD operon to higher levels when it is present in cis rather than trans. Amplification of the products of the cloned genes is observed when compared to haploid levels in some cases.
Mol Gen Genet 1979 Jun 20
PMID:Regulation of the L-arabinose operon in strains of Escherichia coli containing ColE1-ara hybrid plasmids. 38 53

The number of pyrimidine dimers (sites sensitive to UV-endonuclease from M. luteus) transferred at 43 degrees to daughter DNA strands during postreplication repair in UV-irradiated E. coli uvr A polCts was found to be decreased as compared to that after repair at 32 degrees. This indicates the involvement of DNA polymerase III in the sister DNA recombination in UV-irradiated E. coli.
Mol Gen Genet 1979 Jun 20
PMID:Decreased transfer of pyrimidine dimers from parental to daughter DNA strands in UV-irradiated Escherichia coli deficient in DNA polymerase III. 38 55

A HindIII (17.0 kb) and an EcoR1 restriction fragment (6.9 kb) of Klebsiella pneumoniae nif DNA were cloned on two small amplifiable plasmids, pCM1 and pSA30 respectively. These plasmids between them carry 14 of the 15 known Klebsiella nif genes. The operon for the three structural genes for nitrogenase, nifpHDK, is carried on pSA30: four and five of the remaining six operons are on pCRA37 and pCM1 respectively. All of the nif genes were assigned to endonuclease restriction fragments of DNA using the Southern blotting technique (Southern, 1975) with total DNA of nif insertion mutants and radioactive plasmid DNA which contained cloned nif DNA sequences. Their locations were consistent with the genetic map of nif genes. The estimated size of the nif gene cluster was 24 kb.
Mol Gen Genet 1979 Jul 02
PMID:Overlapping sequences of Klebsiella pneumoniae nifDNA cloned and characterized. 38 62

Plasmid ColIb (61.5 Mdal) was digested with restriction enzymes EcoRI and HindIII. The DNA digestion products were separated by electrophoresis on 1.2% agarose gels. There were identified 22 fragments of ColIb DNA generated by the endonuclease EcoRI and 21 fragments produced by HindIII. Molecular weights of the fragments were estimated. The total molecular weight of the fragments generated by EcoRI was 61.42 Mdal and for HindIII fragments 62.79 Mdal.
Mol Gen Genet 1979 Jun 07
PMID:Restriction enzyme analysis of the plasmid ColIb DNA. 38 36

capR (lon) mutants of Escherichia coli K-12 are mucoid on minimal agar because they produce large quantities of capsular polysaccharide. When such mutants are transformed to tetracycline resistance by plasmid pMC44, a hybrid plasmid that contains a 2 megadalton (Mdal) endonuclease EcoR1 fragment of E. coli K-12 DNA joined to the cloning vehicle-pSC101, capsular polysaccharide synthesis is inhibited and the transformed colonies exhibit a non-mucoid phenotype. Re-cloning of the 2 Mdal EcoR1 fragment onto plasmid pHA105, a min-colE1 plasmid, yielded plasmid pFM100 which also inhibited capsular polysaccharide synthesis in the capR mutants. A comparison of the polypeptides specified by both plasmids pFM100 and pMC44 in minicells demonstrated that seven polypeptide bands were specified by the 2 MDal DNA, one of which was previously demonstrated to be outer membrane protein a; also known as 3b or M2 (40 kilodaltons, Kdal). Plasmid mutants no longer repressing capsular polysaccharide synthesis were either unable to specify the 40 Kdal outer membrane protein a or were deficient in synthesis of 25 Kdal and 14.5 Kdal polypeptides specified by the 2 Mdal DNA fragments. Studies with a minicell-producing strain that also contained a capR mutation indicated that the capR gene product regulated processing of at least one normal protein, the precursor of outer membrane protein a.
Mol Gen Genet 1979 Oct 01
PMID:Outer membrane protein a and other polypeptides regulate capsular polysaccharide synthesis in E. coli K-12. 39 32

The ability to remove ultraviolet (UV)-induced pyrimidine dimers from the nuclear DNA of yeast was examined in two radiation-sensitive (rad) mutants and one methyl methanesulfonate-sensitive (mms) mutant of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The susceptibility of DNA from irradiated cells to nicking by an endonuclease activity prepared from crude extracts of Micrococcus luteus was used to measure the presence of dimers in DNA. The rad7, rad14 and mms19 mutants were found to be defective in their ability to remove UV-induced dimers from nuclear DNA. All three mutants belong to the same epistatic group as the other mutants involved in excision-repair. All three mutants show enhanced UV-induced mutations. The rad14 mutant also shows epistatic interactions with genes in the other two UV repair pathways.
Mol Gen Genet 1979 Nov
PMID:Three additional genes involved in pyrimidine dimer removal in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: RAD7, RAD14 and MMS19. 39 38


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