Isolation and characterization of extragenic suppressor strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae.
AUTOR(ES)
Bacha, P
RESUMO
The isolation and characterization of two different nonsense suppressor strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae C7 sup+(-)tox- are described. Appropriate lysogens of these strains with corynephage beta, carrying known class II tox premature polypeptide chain termination mutations [C7sup-1(betatox-30) and C7sup-2(betatox-45)], each produce a 62,000-dalton polypeptide with nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide: elongation factor-2 adenosine diphosphate ribosyltransferase activity in addition to a chain-terminated polypeptide of 30,000 or 45,000 daltons, respectively. In addition, purified protein of 62,000 daltons, resulting from the suppression of the nonsense mutations tox-30 and tox-45, will react with antisera purified against the terminal 17,000 daltons of the toxin molecule and are immunologically identical to toxin by radial immunodiffusion. The suppression pattern of lysogenic derivatives of C7sup-1(-)tox- and C7sup-2(-)tox- with other class II and III mutants of corynephage beta was determined.
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