Abstract:
:Translesion synthesis at replication-blocking lesions requires the induction of proteins that are controlled by the SOS system in Escherichia coli. Of the proteins identified so far, UmuD', UmuC, and RecA* were shown to facilitate replication across UV-light-induced lesions, yielding both error-free and mutagenic translesion-synthesis products. Similar to UV lesions, N-2-acetylaminofluorene (AAF), a chemical carcinogen that forms covalent adducts at the C8 position of guanine residues, is a strong replication-blocking lesion. Frameshift mutations are induced efficiently by AAF adducts when located within short repetitive sequences in a two-step mechanism; AAF adducts incorporate a cytosine across from the lesion and then form a primer-template misaligned intermediate that, upon elongation, yields frameshift mutations. Recently, we have shown that although elongation from the nonslipped intermediate depends on functional umuDC+ gene products, elongation from the slipped intermediate is umuDC+-independent but requires another, as yet biochemically uncharacterized, SOS function. We now show that in DNA Polymerase III-proofreading mutant strains (dnaQ49 and mutD5 strains), elongation from the slipped intermediate is highly efficient in the absence of SOS induction-in contrast to elongation from the nonslipped intermediate, which still requires UmuDC functions.
journal_name
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S Aauthors
Fuchs RP,Napolitano RLdoi
10.1073/pnas.95.22.13114subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-10-27 00:00:00pages
13114-9issue
22eissn
0027-8424issn
1091-6490journal_volume
95pub_type
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