Restriction insensitivity in bacteriophage T5. II. Lack of EcoRI modification in T5+ and T5ris mutants.

AUTOR(ES)

Davison, J

RESUMO

Neither bacteriophage T5+ nor its EcoRI-sensitive ris mutants became modified during growth on an EcoRI-modifying host. For this reason, the rare ris plaques able to grow on the EcoRI-modifying host were always due to revertant phage rather than to modified ris mutants. The ris mutations resulted in the creation of new EcoRI cleavage sites in the terminally repetitious first-step transfer DNA, and analysis of T5 ris revertants showed loss of these sites and restoration of the wild-type restriction pattern. Natural EcoRI sites present in the second-step transfer DNA were never lost in T5ris revertants, indicating that these are irrelevant to in vivo restriction and are protected during growth on the restricting host.

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