Temperature-sensitive Escherichia coli mutant producing a temperature-sensitive sigma subunit of DNA-dependent RNA polymerase.
- 1 December 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 75 (12) , 6177-6181
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.75.12.6177
Abstract
A gene affecting the sigma subunit of DNA-dependent RNA polymerase is tightly linked to dnaG at 66 min on the Escherichia coli chromosome. In order to create an easily selectable marker in this region, we inserted transposon-10, which carries a gene determining resistance to tetracycline (tet) near 66 min, and the order tolC-dnaG-sigma-tet was determined. We used frequency of contransduction with tet as a criterion to screen a collection of spontaneous temperature-sensitive Escherichia coli mutants that might affect the sigma subunit. One such mutant was found to map at the sigma locus. The sigma subunit isolated from this mutant is unstable at 46 degrees C in vitro and has an altered electrophoretic mobility. The temperature sensitivity of RNA synthesis in this mutant indicates that most transcription in E. coli is sigma dependent.This publication has 34 references indexed in Scilit:
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