Inactivation of essential division genes, ftsA, ftsZ, suppresses mutations at sfiB, a locus mediating division inhibition during the SOS response in E. coli.
AUTOR(ES)
Jones, C A
RESUMO
A dominant sfiB allele has been cloned which renders partial diploids of an sfiB + Escherichia coli host resistant to division inhibition mediated by the SOS response. Transpositional mutagenesis was used to map the position of this sfiB114 allele, carried by a plasmid pLG552 , to an approximately 0.6-kb region overlapping the coding regions for ftsA and ftsZ , two genes essential for normal division. Most Tn 1000 insertions which inactivated sfiB114 also inactivated the ftsA function and caused the disappearance of both a 47-K polypeptide and reduced levels of a 42-K polypeptide in maxi-cells carrying pLG552 . An additional insertion inactivating sfiB114 was mapped to the right of ftsA and resulted in loss of the 42-K but not the 47-K polypeptide in maxi-cells. Moreover, a 2.1-kb BamHI-EcoRI DNA fragment was subcloned which carried ftsA and coded for a 47-K polypeptide but did not carry sfiB114 and did not complement ftsZ . We conclude that sfiB114 is located within ftsZ coding for a 42-K polypeptide. Nevertheless, insertions into ftsZ coding the 47-K polypeptide suppress the sfiB114 allele by substantially reducing the synthesis of the FtsZ ( SfiB114 ) polypeptide. The level of residual FtsZ synthesis was minimal when Tn 1000 was inserted closest to the distal end of ftsA , indicating the presence of a regulatory region essential for maximal expression of ftsZ .
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