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. 1988 Aug;213(2-3):325-31.
doi: 10.1007/BF00339598.

In vivo effect of DNA repair on the transition frequency produced from a single O6-methyl- or O6-n-butyl-guanine in a T:G base pair

R W Chambers  1 , E Sledziewska-Gojska, S Hirani-Hojatti
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In vivo effect of DNA repair on the transition frequency produced from a single O6-methyl- or O6-n-butyl-guanine in a T:G base pair

R W Chambers et al. Mol Gen Genet. 1988 Aug.

Abstract

We have previously reported some effects of DNA repair on the transition frequencies produced by an O6-methyl-guanine (MeG) or an O6-n-butyl-guanine (BuG) paired with C at the first position of the third codon in gene G of bacteriophage phi X174 form I' DNA (Chambers et al. 1985). We now report experiments in which the transition is produced from T:MeG or T:BuG, instead of C:MeG or C:BuG, located at this site. The site-modified DNAs were transfected into cells with normal DNA repair as well as into cells with repair defects (uvrA, uvrB, uvrC, recA, uvrArecA). The lysates were screened for phage carrying the expected transition using a characteristic change in phenotype. The data demonstrate that the transition frequency from T:BuG is low (0.3% of total phage progeny) in cells with normal repair (Escherichia coli AB1157) and increases 7-fold in uvrA cells (E. coli AB1886). A similar increase is seen in uvrB and uvrC cells (AB1885, AB1884). These data, like our previous data, indicate BuG is repaired primarily by excision. In contrast to this, the transition frequency from T:MeG is high (5 +/- 2%) in cells with normal repair. After induction of alkyl transfer repair in E. coli AB1157, the transition frequency goes up 5-fold. Compared with cells with normal repair, the transition frequency goes up 2-fold in uvrA, uvrB and uvrC cells; it goes up 1.5-fold in recA cells (E. coli AB2463). The data reinforce our earlier conclusion that MeG is repaired primarily by alkyl transfer, but the ABC excinuclease as well as RecA protein inhibit this repair process.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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