In vitro characterization of pol I*, an SOS inducible, error-prone from of Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I
E. coli strains carrying mutations in the SOS regulon were screened for the presence of pol I*. Use of pol I* in assays of polymerase fidelity and selectivity has been limited by the low concentration and purity of the enzyme. Therefore, attempts were made to further concentrate and purify pol I*. The template selectivity of pol I* was compared to that of pol I using three models of damaged DNA. UV-irradiated M13 DNA was used in a two-stage termination reaction to determine if pol I* could bypass putative pyrimidine dimers to a greater extent than pol I. In the gel system no reproducibly significant bypass could be detected by either pol I* or pol I. However, the degree of replication by pol I* utilizing UV-irradiated M13 DNA template, was up to 5-fold greater than for pol I. OsO{sub 4}-oxidized M13 DNA was used as a model substrate for oxidative DNA damage. Opposite this substrate incorporation by pol I* is less inhibited than incorporation by pol I. However, in a test of nucleotide selectivity neither pol I*, pol I, nor terminal deoxyribonucleotidyl transferase will incorporate ({alpha}-{sup 32}P)thymine glycol deoxyribonucleotide. The activity of pol I* was compared to that of pol I on the synthetic templates, poly (dA) and poly((dA)+2-AP). Pol I* misincorporated both dCMP and dGMP to a greater extent than pol I when utilizing templates containing 2-aminopurine deoxyribonucleotide.
- Research Organization:
- California Univ., Berkeley, CA (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5649143
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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