Table 3.
Spontaneous mutagenesis promoted by wild type and steric gate variants of pol V and pol VICE391 in E. coli recA730 lexA(Def) ΔdinB ΔumuDC strains
| Status of rNMP repair genes | pGB2 | pol V homologs | Wild-type polymerase | Steric Gate polymerase | SGa % of WT | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wt | 3.2 ± 0.2 | pol V | 691 ± 9 | 73 ± 5 | 11 |
| pol VICE391 | >3000 | 27 ± 3 | <1 | |||
| 2 | ΔrnhB | 2.8 ± 0.6 | pol V | 671 ± 12 | 207 ± 4 | 31 |
| pol VICE391 | >3000 | 338 ± 6 | ∼10 | |||
| 3 | ΔrnhA | 2.7 ± 0.3 | pol V | ∼3000 | 127 ± 3 | ∼4 |
| pol VICE391 | ≫3000 | 14 ± 1 | <0.5 | |||
| 4 | ΔuvrA | 2.9 ± 0.6 | pol V | 439 ± 2 | 65 ± 1 | 15 |
| pol VICE391 | >3000 | 44 ± 1 | ∼1.5 | |||
| 5 | ΔrnhB ΔuvrA | 2.9 ± 0.4 | pol V | 382 ± 14 | 236 ± 15 | 62 |
| pol VICE391 | >3000 | 503 ± 67 | ∼17 | |||
: SG: Steric gate mutant polymerase