Multiple pathways for SOS-induced mutagenesis in Escherichia coli: An overexpression of dinB/dinP results in strongly enhancing mutagenesis in the absence of any exogenous treatment to damage DNA

Kim, SR; Maenhaut-Michel, G; Yamada, M; Yamamoto, Y; Matsui, K; Sofuni, T; Nohmi, T; Ohmori, H

HERO ID

680021

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Journal Article

Year

1997

Language

English

PMID

9391106

HERO ID 680021
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Year 1997
Title Multiple pathways for SOS-induced mutagenesis in Escherichia coli: An overexpression of dinB/dinP results in strongly enhancing mutagenesis in the absence of any exogenous treatment to damage DNA
Authors Kim, SR; Maenhaut-Michel, G; Yamada, M; Yamamoto, Y; Matsui, K; Sofuni, T; Nohmi, T; Ohmori, H
Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume 94
Issue 25
Page Numbers 13792-13797
Abstract dinP is an Escherichia coli gene recently identified at 5.5 min of the genetic map, whose product shows a similarity in amino acid sequence to the E. coli UmuC protein involved in DNA damage-induced mutagenesis. In this paper we show that the gene is identical to dinB, an SOS gene previously localized near the lac locus at 8 min, the function of which was shown to be required for mutagenesis of nonirradiated lambda phage infecting UV-preirradiated bacterial cells (termed lambdaUTM for lambda untargeted mutagenesis). A newly constructed dinP null mutant exhibited the same defect for lambdaUTM as observed previously with a dinB::Mu mutant, and the defect was complemented by plasmids carrying dinP as the only intact bacterial gene. Furthermore, merely increasing the dinP gene expression, without UV irradiation or any other DNA-damaging treatment, resulted in a strong enhancement of mutagenesis in F'lac plasmids; at most, 800-fold increase in the G6-to-G5 change. The enhanced mutagenesis did not depend on recA, uvrA, or umuDC. Thus, our results establish that E. coli has at least two distinct pathways for SOS-induced mutagenesis: one dependent on umuDC and the other on dinB/P.
Doi 10.1073/pnas.94.25.13792
Pmid 9391106
Wosid WOS:A1997YK82500079
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Keyword Sciences: Comprehensive Works; Mutagenesis; Bacteria
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