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Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Mutants with temperature-sensitive defects in the Escherichia coli mismatch repair system: sensitivity to mispairs generated in vivo.
Journal of Bacteriology 2005 Februrary
We have used direct selections to generate large numbers of mutants of Escherichia coli defective in the mismatch repair system and have screened these to identify mutants with temperature-sensitive defects. We detected and sequenced mutations that give rise to temperature-sensitive MutS, MutL, and MutH proteins. One mutation, mutS60, results in almost normal levels of spontaneous mutations at 37 degrees C but above this temperature gives rise to higher and higher levels of mutations, reaching the level of null mutations in mutS at 43 degrees C. However, at 37 degrees C the MutS60 protein can be much more easily titrated by mispairs than the wild-type MutS, as evidenced by the impaired ability to block homologous recombination in interspecies crosses and the increased levels of mutations from weak mutator alleles of mutD (dnaQ), mutC, and ndk. Strains with mutS60 can detect mispairs generated during replication that lead to mutation with much greater sensitivity than wild-type strains. The findings with ndk, lacking nucleotide diphosphate kinase, are striking. An ndk mutS60 strain yields four to five times the level of mutations seen in a full knockout of mutS. These results pose the question of whether similar altered Msh2 proteins result from presumed polymorphisms detected in tumor lines. The role of allele interactions in human disease susceptibility is discussed.
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