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. 1992 Nov;174(21):6872–6877. doi: 10.1128/jb.174.21.6872-6877.1992

Further evidence that transposition of Tn5 in Escherichia coli is strongly enhanced by constitutively activated RecA proteins.

C T Kuan 1, I Tessman 1
PMCID: PMC207365  PMID: 1328165

Abstract

We have shown that excision and transposition of Tn5 in Escherichia coli are greatly increased by recA(Prtc) genes, which encode constitutively activated RecA proteins (C.-T. Kuan, S.-K. Liu, and I. Tessman, Genetics 128:45-57, 1991). Contrary results, showing a significant decrease in Tn5 transposition under SOS conditions, were subsequently reported (M. D. Weinreich, J. C. Makris, and W. S. Reznikoff, J. Bacteriol. 173:6910-6918, 1991). We have extended our studies to examine the following: (i) transposition of Tn5 from sites in the phoA, phoB, proC, trpD, and ilvD genes; (ii) the effect of gene transcription; (iii) the comparative effect of dinD+ and dinD(Def) alleles; (iv) the use of a mating-out assay of transposition; (v) the effect of a recA(Prtc) allele located at the normal chromosomal site; and (vi) the effect at 41.5 degrees C of the recA441(Prtc) allele. The new results fully confirm our previous conclusions, including the fact that the frequency of Tn5 transposition under constitutive SOS conditions is site dependent.

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