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. 1979 Jul 11;6(9):2973–2985. doi: 10.1093/nar/6.9.2973

Defined transversion mutations at a specific position in DNA using synthetic oligodeoxyribonucleotides as mutagens.

S Gillam, P Jahnke, C Astell, S Phillips, C A Hutchison 3rd, M Smith
PMCID: PMC327911  PMID: 158749

Abstract

The oligodeoxyribonucleotides, pCCCAGCCTCAA, which is complementary to nucleotides 5274--4284 of bacteriophage phi X174 viral DNA , and pCCCAGCCTAAA, which corresponds to the same sequence with a C leads to A change at the ninth nucleotide, were synthesized enzymatically. The second of these oligonucleotides was used as a primer for E. coli DNA polymerase I, from which the 5'-exonculease has been removed by proteolysis (Klenow enzyme), on wild-type phi X174 viral DNA template. After ligation, this yielded closed circular heteroduplex DNA with a G, A mismatch at nucleotide 5276. Transfection of E. coli spheroplasts with the heteroduplex DNA produced phage mutated at this nucleotide (G leads to T in the viral DNA) with high efficiency (13%). The mutant DNA, which corresponds to the gene B mutant am16, was reverted (T leads to G) by the wild type oligonucleotide with an efficiency of 19%. The nucleotide changes were established by sequence determination of the mutated viral DNA using the enzymatic terminator method. The production of specific transversion mutations, together with a previous demonstration of specific transition mutations (1), established that short enzymatically synthesized oligodeoxyribonucleotides can be used to induce any class of single nucleotide replacement with high efficiency and thus provide a powerful tool for specific genetic manipulations in circular genomes like that of phi X174.

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