Abstract
Suppressor mutations located within dnaA can suppress the temperature sensitivity of a dnaZ polymerization mutant, indicating in vivo interaction of the products of these genes. The suppressor allele of dnaA [designated dnaA(SUZ, Cs)] could not be introduced, even at the permissive temperature, by transduction into temperature-sensitive (Ts) dnaC or dnaG recipients; it was transduced into dnaB(Ts) and dnaE(Ts) strains but at very low frequency. Recipient cells which were dnaA+ dnaE(Ts) were killed by the incoming dnaA(SUZ, Cs) allele, and it is presumed that combinations of dnaA(SUZ, Cs) with dnaB(Ts), dnaC(Ts), or dnaG(Ts) are lethal also. In one specific case, the lethality required the presence of three alleles: the incoming dnaA suppressor mutation, the resident dnaA+ gene, and the dnaB(Ts) gene. This was shown by the fact that dnaB(Ts) could readily be introduced into a dnaA(SUZ, Cs) dnaB+ recipient. That is, in the absence of dnaA+, the dnaA suppressor and dnaB(Ts) double mutant was stable. One model to explain these results proposes that the dnaA protein functions not only in initiation but also in the replication complex which contains multiple copies of dnaA and other replication factors.
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