In vitro and in vivo recombination-related reactions of Escherichia coli recA protein and glucosyl-hydroxymethyl-deoxycytidine DNA |
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Authors: | Tetsuro Yonesaki and Teiichi Minagawa |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, 606 Kyoto, Japan |
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Abstract: | Summary Recombination of T4 phage is not controlled by the host recA gene but by an analogous phage gene, uvsX. We have tested the hypothesis that recA protein is inactive in T4-infected cells because it is unable to catalyze reactions involving single stranded DNA containing glucosyl-hydroxylmethyl-deoxycytidine. We found, however, that with modified and unmodified deoxycytidine containing DNAs, uvsX protein and recA protein catalyze in vitro reactions related to DNA recombination, but in T4-infected cells recA protein fails to promote strand transfer of DNA which contains unmodified deoxycytidine.Abbreviations dC-DNA deoxycytidine containing DNA - dC-T4 T4 phage containing dC-DNA - dHMC-DNA glucosyl-hydroxymethyl-deoxycytidine containing DNA - dsDNA double stranded DNA - gp gene product - ssDNA single stranded DNA |
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Keywords: | Bacteriophage T4 General recombination glucosyl-hydroxymethyl-deoxycytidine DNA recA protein uvsX protein |
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