Role of exonuclease III in the base excision repair of uracil-containing DNA.
AUTOR(ES)
Taylor, A F
RESUMO
Mutants of Escherichia coli K-12 deficient in both exonuclease III (the product of the xth gene) and deoxyuridine triphosphatase (the dut gene product) are inviable at high temperatures and undergo filamentation when grown at such temperatures. In dut mutants, the dUTP pool is known to be greatly enhanced, resulting in an increased substitution of uracil for thymine in DNA during replication. The subsequent removal of uracil from the DNA by uracil-DNA glycosylase produces apyrimidinic sites, at which exonuclease III is known to have an endonucleolytic activity. The lethality of dut xth mutants, therefore, indicates that exonuclease III is important for this base-excision pathway and suggests that unrepaired apyrimidinic sites are lethal. Two confirmatory findings were as follows. (i) dut xth mutants were viable if they also had a mutation in the uracil-DNA glycosylase (ung) gene; such mutants should not remove uracil from DNA and should not, therefore, generate apyrimidinic sites. (ii) In the majority of the temperature-resistant revertants isolated, viability had been restored by a mutation in the dCTP deaminase (dcd) gene; such mutations should decrease dUTP production and hence uracil misincorporation. The results indicate that, in dut mutants, exonuclease III is essential for the repair of uracil-containing DNA and of apyrimidinic sites.
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