Isolation and analysis of multicopy extragenic suppressors of dnaA mutations.

AUTOR(ES)

Projan, S J

RESUMO

Recombinant plasmids were constructed from restriction enzyme digests of Escherichia coli chromosomal deoxyribonucleic acid and pMB9 plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid and selected for correction of the dnaA phenotype. The three plasmids isolated, all retransformed dnaA cells, both recA+ and recA, such that all tetracycline-resistant transformants selected at permissive temperature simultaneously became temperature resistant. Restriction enzyme mapping of the plasmids showed all three to be different, and it was subsequently shown that none contained the dnaA+ gene. Though each of the three plasmids suppressed three different temperature-sensitive dnaA alleles, none corrected the phenotype of an unsuppressed dnaA amber allele. It was concluded, therefore, that each plasmid contained a unique extragenic suppressor of dnaA and that the suppression was observed because of the elevated gene dosage of the cloned material. The plasmids were unstable in the absence of selection.

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