Incorporation and excision of 5-fluorouracil from deoxyribonucleic acid in Escherichia coli.
AUTOR(ES)
Warner, H R
RESUMO
When Escherichia coli are grown in the presence of 5-fluorouracil, the 5-fluorouracil is incorporated almost exclusively into ribonucleic acid as fluorouridylate. In this study, small but detectable amounts were incorporated into ribonucleic acid as fluorocytidylate and into deoxyribonucleic acid as fluorodeoxyuridylate and fluorodeoxycytidylate. The amount of 5-fluorouracil found in deoxyribonucleic acid as fluorodeoxyuridylate increased 50-fold when the cells were deficient in both deoxyuridine triphosphatase and uracil-deoxyribonucleic acid glycosylase activities. Therefore, the same mechanisms which excluded uracil from deoxyribonucleic acid in vivo also excluded 5-fluorouracil. Even though purified uracil-deoxyribonucleic acid glycosylase excised 5-fluorouracil from deoxyribonucleic acid at only 5% the rate with which it excised uracil, most of the 5-fluorouracil excised from deoxyribonucleic acid in vivo was apparently excised directly by uracil-deoxyribonucleic acid glycosylase rather than by repair initiated by excision of uracil.
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