Discontinuous DNA replication in a lig-7 strain of Escherichia coli is not the result of mismatch repair, nucleotide-excision repair, or the base-excision repair of DNA uracil

Tzu chien V. Wang, Kendric C. Smith*

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Abstract

After pulse-labeling with 3H-thymidine for 30 s at 42°C, the newly-synthesized DNA from uvrB5 liq-7, uvrB5 liq-7 ung-1 (or ung152), uvrB5 lig-7 mutL218 (or mutS215), and uvrB5 lig-7 ung-1 mutL218 (or mutS215) cells sedimented very slowly in alkaline sucrose gradients. The bulk of these DNA molecules were smaller than 2,000 nucleotides long (i.e., about the size of Okazaki fragments), and none of the 3H-radioactivity was found to sediment as high-molecular-weight DNA. These results indicate that the apparent discontinuous DNA replication observed in lig-7 strains is not the result of mismatch repair, nucleotide-excision repair, or the base-excision repair of DNA uracil.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)685-688
Number of pages4
JournalBiochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
Volume165
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 12 1989

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