Isolation of mutants of bacteriophage T4 unable to induce thymidine kinase activity. II. Location of the structural gene for thymidine kinase.
AUTOR(ES)
Chace, K V
RESUMO
Amber mutants of bacteriophage T4 have been isolated that induce thymidine kinase activity only after infection of a strain of Escherichia coli carrying a suppressor mutation. The activity induced when one of these mutants infected this suppressor strain is much more heat sensitive than the activity induced by wild-type T4. This indicates that this amber mutation lies within the structural gene for thymidine kinase. This gene is between fI and v on the standard T4 genetic map. A mutant of tt4 that is unable to induce thymidine kinase activity incorporates only about one-eighth as much thymidine into its DNA as phage that do induce thymidine kinase. This contrasts to the findings that the total thymidine kinase activity in extracts prepared from cells infected with phage able to induce thymidine kinase in only twice as great as the activity in cells infected with the mutant unable to induce the enzyme.
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