Escherichia coli ras Locus: Its Involvement in Radiation Repair
AUTOR(ES)
Walker, James R.
RESUMO
There are several classes of Escherichia coli mutants defective in radiation repair. These include strains defective in pyrimidine dimer excision, in photoreactivation, in recombination, in repair of X-ray damage, and ultraviolet (UV)-conditional mutants which do not divide after UV. Another mutant (ras−) has been isolated. The ras− has increased UV sensitivity, but only slightly increased X-ray sensitivity (1.5-fold increase). Ability to effect genetic recombination, to reactivate irradiated bacteriophage T1, and to be photoreactivated is normal. UV-induced mutation frequency is greatly increased in the mutant. The ras− apparently lacks the ability to repair some UV damage in the bacterial cell but can repair UV damage to bacteriophage DNA. The ras locus is located between lac and purE on the chromosome map.
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