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J Bacteriol. 1983 Nov; 156(2): 727–736.
doi: 10.1128/jb.156.2.727-736.1983
PMCID: PMC217889
PMID: 6313616

Restriction nuclease and enzymatic analysis of transposon-induced mutations of the Rac prophage which affect expression and function of recE in Escherichia coli K-12.

D K Willis, K E Fouts, S D Barbour, and A J Clark
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Abstract

Fourteen Tn5-generated mutations of the Rac prophage, called sbc because they suppress recB21 recC22, were found to fall into two distinct types: type I mutations, which were insertions of Tn5, and type II mutations, which were insertions of IS50. Both orientations of Tn5 and IS50 were represented among the mutants and were arbitrarily labeled A and B. All 14 of the Tn5 and IS50 insertions occurred in the same location (+/- 100 base pairs) approximately 5.6 kilobases from one of the hybrid attachment sites. Eleven of the mutants contained essentially the same amount of exonuclease VIII, the product of recE. The possibility that a promoter for recE was created by the insertion of Tn5 and IS50 was considered. Two IS50 mutants in which such a promoter could not have been created showed three to four times as much exonuclease VIII, and another showed one-half as much as the majority. The possibility was considered that a promoter internal to IS50 is responsible for this heterogeneity. Restriction alleviation was measured in all 14 mutants. An insertion of the transposon Tn10 which reduces expression of exonuclease VIII (recE101::Tn10) was located within the Rac prophage at a position 2.35 kilobases from the left hybrid attachment site. Location and orientation of the Rac prophage on the Escherichia coli genetic map are discussed in light of these results.

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