Published online 24 February 2005
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Separation of mutation avoidance and antirecombination functions in an Escherichia coli mutS mutant
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School 364 Plantation Street, Worcester, MA 01605, USA
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Received January 5, 2005. Revised February 2, 2005. Accepted February 2, 2005.
DNA mismatch repair in Escherichia coli has been shown to be involved in two distinct processes: mutation avoidance, which removes potential mutations arising as replication errors, and antirecombination which prevents recombination between related, but not identical (homeologous), DNA sequences. We show that cells with the mutS
800 mutation (which removes the C-terminal 53 amino acids of MutS) on a multicopy plasmid are proficient for mutation avoidance. In interspecies genetic crosses, however, recipients with the mutS800 mutation show increased recombination by up to 280-fold relative to mutS +. The MutS800 protein binds to O 6-methylguanine mismatches but not to intrastrand platinated GG cross-links, explaining why dam bacteria with the mutS800 mutation are resistant to cisplatin, but not MNNG, toxicity. The results indicate that the C-terminal end of MutS is necessary for antirecombination and cisplatin sensitization, but less significant for mutation avoidance. The inability of MutS800 to form tetramers may indicate that these are the active form of MutS.
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