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. 1988 May;170(5):2392–2394. doi: 10.1128/jb.170.5.2392-2394.1988

Genetic and phenotypic analyses indicating occurrence of the recN262 and radB101 mutations at the same locus in Escherichia coli.

N J Sargentini 1, K C Smith 1
PMCID: PMC211137  PMID: 3283110

Abstract

The radB101 and recN262 mutations showed essentially identical phenotypes when compared in isogenic Escherichia coli strains for their effects on gamma and UV radiation survival and on conjugal recombination in a uvrA recB recC sbcB sbcC strain. Complementation tests involving attempts to reconstitute a radB+ recN+ strain by transductions between radB101 and recN262 donors and recipients, and tests involving plasmids carrying recN+ and recN::Tn1000 inserts, indicated that the radB and recN genes are identical. We suggest that the radB101 mutation now be referred to as recN2001.

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