Suppressors of mutations in the bacteriophage T4 gene coding for both RNA ligase and tail fiber attachment activities.
AUTOR(ES)
Hall, D H
RESUMO
The protein product of T4 gene 63 catalyzes both the attachment of tail fibers to fiberless phage particles and the ligation of single-stranded RNA (Snopek at al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 74:3355-3359, 1977). To investigate whether the gene 63 product has a role in nucleotide metabolism, we isolated false revertants of amM69 in gene 63. We screened for revertants that could grow at 30 degrees C but not at 43 degrees C on Escherichia coli OK305 when nucleotides were limiting. These false revertants contained the original mutation in gene 63 and new suppressor mutations. Some of these suppressor mutations caused temperature sensitivity by themselves, allowing single mutants carrying the suppressor to be recognized and isolated. The results of mapping and complementation studies indicated that most of these ts suppressors were in the t gene (lysis), one was in gene 5 (baseplate), and one was in gene 18 (sheath). The mutation in gene 18, tsDH638, suppressed three different amber mutations in gene 63 but did not suppress amber mutations in several other genes. None of the suppressors that were characterized were in genes with known functions in nucleotide metabolism. However, an intriguing property of these false revertants was that they were very sensitive to hydroxyurea, an inhibitor of nucleotide metabolism.
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