The fate of newly made DNA in Escherichia coli mutants thermosensitive in DNA synthesis |
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Authors: | Maria Mikolajczyk and Heinz Schuster |
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Affiliation: | (1) Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin, Germany |
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Abstract: | Summary E. coli mutants exist in which DNA synthesis is thermosensitive. In one class of these mutants DNA synthesis stops immediately if a critical temperature (42°C) is reached. When DNA replication in such mutants is followed by 3H thymidine incorporation at 33°C, it is found that 1. only the newly made DNA is degraded at 42°C, 2. the discontinuously replicated DNA is lost predominantly at 42°C, 3. 1–3% of the chromosomal DNA is rendered acid soluble at 42°C without concomitant loss of viability of the cells at 33°C.Replication of phage DNA is inhibited in the same mutant at 42°C. However, when DNA synthesis is followed in infected cells at 33°C it is found that 1. no degradation of specific DNA seems to occur at 42°C in the early phase of infection, 2. replicating DNA molecules in the late phase of infection are completed at 42°C before DNA synthesis comes to a halt. |
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