Interruption-deficient mutants of bacteriophage T5: analysis of single-site mutants.

AUTOR(ES)

Rhoades, M

RESUMO

The properties of viable mutants of bacteriophage T5 that lack, singly, each of the four major sites at which single-chain interruptions normally occur in T5 DNA are described. The mutations responsible for loss of each interruption were mapped by analysis with HhaI, a restriction endonuclease with a cleavage site (pGCGC) that occurs at the 5' termini of the major interruptions (B. P. Nichols and J. E. Donelson, J. Virol. 22:520-526, 1977). For each mutant tested, loss of a specific interruption resulted in loss of a specific HhaI cleavage site. Multiple single-site mutants were constructed to determine the effect of loss of more than one interruption on phage viability. These recombinants, including a phage that lacks the four major interruptible sites, were fully viable and did not exhibit a compensating increase in the frequency of minor interruptions. The effect of loss of a specific interruption on genetic recombination was tested in two-factor crosses with markers that occur close to, but on opposite sites of, the interruption. Loss of the interruptible site did not affect recombination frequency.

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