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. 1992 Nov;174(21):6948–6955. doi: 10.1128/jb.174.21.6948-6955.1992

Roles of Salmonella typhimurium umuDC and samAB in UV mutagenesis and UV sensitivity.

T Nohmi 1, M Yamada 1, M Watanabe 1, S Y Murayama 1, T Sofuni 1
PMCID: PMC207374  PMID: 1400244

Abstract

Expression of the umuDC operon is required for UV mutagenesis and most chemical mutagenesis in Escherichia coli. The closely related species Salmonella typhimurium has two sets of umuDC-like operons; the samAB operon is located in a 60-MDa cryptic plasmid, while the S. typhimurium umuDC (umuDCST) operon resides in a chromosome. The roles of these two umuDC-like operons in UV mutagenesis and UV sensitivity of S. typhimurium were investigated. A pBR322-derived plasmid carrying the samAB operon more efficiently restored UV mutability to a umuD44 strain and a umuC122::Tn5 strain of E. coli than a plasmid carrying the umuDCST operon did. When the umuDCST operon was specifically deleted from the chromosome of S. typhimurium TA2659, the resulting strain was not UV mutable and was more sensitive to the killing effect of UV irradiation than the parent strain was. Curing of the 60-MDa cryptic plasmid carrying the samAB operon did not influence the UV mutability of strain TA2659 but did increase its resistance to UV killing. A pSC101-derived plasmid carrying the samAB operon did not restore UV mutability to a umuD44 strain of E. coli, whereas pBR322- or pBluescript-derived plasmids carrying the samAB operon efficiently did restore UV mutability. We concluded that the umuDCST operon plays a major role in UV mutagenesis in S. typhimurium and that the ability of the samAB operon to promote UV mutagenesis is strongly affected by gene dosage. Possible reasons for the poor ability of samAB to promote UV mutagenesis when it is present on low-copy-number plasmids are discussed.

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