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  • Title: Synthesis and metabolism of uracil-containing deoxyribonucleic acid in Escherichia coli.
    Author: Warner HR, Duncan BK, Garrett C, Neuhard J.
    Journal: J Bacteriol; 1981 Feb; 145(2):687-95. PubMed ID: 6109711.
    Abstract:
    Significant amounts of uracil were found in the deoxyribonucleic acids (DNAs) of Escherichia coli mutants deficient in both uracil-DNA glycosylase (ung) and deoxyuridine 5'-triphosphate nucleotidohydrolase (dut) activities, whereas little uracil was found in the DNAs of wild-type cells and cells deficient in only one of these two activities. The amounts of uracil found in the DNAs of dut ung mutants were directly related to the growth temperature of the cultures, apparently because the deoxyuridine 5'-triphosphate nucleotidohydrolase synthesized by dut mutants was temperature sensitive. The dut mutant used failed to grow exponentially, became filamentous at temperatures above 25 degrees C, and exhibited a hyperrec phenotype; however, the ung mutation suppressed all of these effects. Although the dut ung mutants grew exponentially at all temperatures, their growth rates were always slower than the growth rate of the wild type. Since pool size measurements indicated that both deoxyuridine triphosphate and deoxythymidine triphosphate pools were markedly elevated in dut mutants, the reduced growth rate of dut ung cells apparently was due to the actual presence of uracil in the DNA, rather than to a deficiency of deoxyuridine triphosphate and deoxyribosylthymine triphosphate for DNA synthesis. The presence of uracil in E. coli donor DNA also markedly reduced the recombination frequency when the recipient cells were ung+, indicating that DNA repair commenced before the entering DNA could be replicated.
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