Abstract
In Escherichia coli, efficient mutagenesis by UV requires the umuDC operon. A deficiency in umuDC activity is believed to be responsible for the relatively weak UV mutability of Salmonella typhimurium LT2 compared with that of E. coli. To begin evaluating this hypothesis and the evolutionary relationships among umuDC-related sequences, we cloned and sequenced the S. typhimurium umuDC operon. S. typhimurium umuDC restored mutability to umuD and umuC mutants of E. coli. DNA sequence analysis of 2,497 base pairs (bp) identified two nonoverlapping open reading frames spanning 1,691 bp that were were 67 and 72% identical at the nucleotide sequence level to the umuD and umuC sequences, respectively, from E. coli. The sequences encoded proteins whose deduced primary structures were 73 and 84% identical to the E. coli umuD and umuC gene products, respectively. The two bacterial umuDC sequences were more similar to each other than to mucAB, a plasmid-borne umuDC homolog. The umuD product retained the Cys-24--Gly-25, Ser-60, and Lys-97 amino acid residues believed to be critical for RecA-mediated proteolytic activation of UmuD. The presence of a LexA box 17 bp upstream from the UmuD initiation codon suggests that this operon is a member of an SOS regulon. Mu d-P22 inserts were used to locate the S. typhimurium umuDC operon to a region between 35.9 and 40 min on the S. typhimurium chromosome. In E. coli, umuDC is located at 26 min. The umuDC locus in S. typhimurium thus appears to be near one end of a chromosomal inversion that distinguishes gene order in the 25- to 35-min regions of the E. coli and S. typhimurium chromosomes. It is likely, therefore, that the umuDC operon was present in a common ancestor before S. typhimurium and E. coli diverged approximately 150 million years ago. These results provide new information for investigating the structure, function, and evolutionary origins of umuDC and for exploring the genetic basis for the mutability differences between S. typhimurium and E. coli.
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