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. 1980 Oct;144(1):60–67. doi: 10.1128/jb.144.1.60-67.1980

Genetic analysis of Escherichia coli K-12 chromosomal mutants defective in expression of F-plasmid functions: identification of genes cpxA and cpxB.

J McEwen, P Silverman
PMCID: PMC294588  PMID: 6998969

Abstract

Two temperature-sensitive, chromosomal mutants of Escherichia coli were selected for their inability to express deoxyribonucleic acid donor activity and other activities associated with the conjugative plasmid F. These mutants were also auxotrophic for isoleucine and valine at 41 degrees C. Each mutant strain contained two altered genes: cpxA, located at 88 min on the E. coli K-12 genetic map, and cpxB, located at 41 min. Mutations in both genes were required for maximal expression of mutant phenotypes. The parent strain of mutants KN401 and KN312 already contained the cpxB mutation that is present in both mutants (cpxB1). This mutation by itself was cryptic. The cpxA mutations represent different mutant alleles since they are of independent origin. A cpxA mutation by itself significantly affected the expression of plasmid functions and growth at 41 degrees C in the absence of isoleucine and valine, but strains containing both a cpxA and cpxB mutation were more severely affected. Along with the observation that both cpxA mutations were revertable, the temperature sensitivity of cpxA cpxB+ cells suggests that both cpxA alleles contain point mutations that do not completely destroy the activity of the cpxA gene product.

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