Deoxyuridine residues in DNA of thymine-requiring Bacillus subtilis strains with defective N-glycosidase activity for uracil-containing DNA.

AUTOR(ES)

Makino, F

RESUMO

DNA extracted from exponentially growing cells of thymine-requiring Bacillus subtilis strains with defective N-glycosidase activity for deoxyuridine residues in DNA was subjected to the action of N-glycosidase in vitro and analyzed by sedimentation in alkaline sucrose gradients. The sites attacked by N-glycosidase occurred once per 6 X 10(6) to 7 X 10(6) daltons of DNA from cells cultured in the presence of growth-supporting concentrations of thymine. The number of N-glycosidase-susceptible sites increased when the thymine concentration in the medium was lowered. Parallel to this observation, the N-glycosidase-defective mutant cells were less apt to show the detrimental effect due to thymine depletion than were the parental cells. Such sites were not detected in DNA from cells with a normal N-glycosidase activity or with a "wild type" capacity for thymidylate synthesis. The results are interpreted to mean that cells defective for thymidylate synthesis incorporate dUTP in place of TTP in DNA and that the deoxyuridine residues, once incorporated, remain in the DNA in the absence of N-glycosidase activity.

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