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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 43, Issue 8, Pages 4109-4120Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv217
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- Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [Z01 ES065086]
- International PhD Projects Program of the Foundation for Polish Science [MPD/2009-3/2]
- European Union Regional Development Fund
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
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The Escherichia coli SOS system is a well-established model for the cellular response to DNA damage. Control of SOS depends largely on the RecA protein. When RecA is activated by single-stranded DNA in the presence of a nucleotide triphosphate cofactor, it mediates cleavage of the LexA repressor, leading to expression of the 30(+)-member SOS regulon. RecA activation generally requires the introduction of DNA damage. However, certain recA mutants, like recA730, bypass this requirement and display constitutive SOS expression as well as a spontaneous (SOS) mutator effect. Presently, we investigated the possible interaction between SOS and the cellular deoxynucleoside triphosphate (dNTP) pools. We found that dNTP pool changes caused by deficiencies in the ndk or dcd genes, encoding nucleoside diphosphate kinase and dCTP deaminase, respectively, had a strongly suppressive effect on constitutive SOS expression in recA730 strains. The suppression of the recA730 mutator effect was alleviated in a lexA-deficient background. Overall, the findings suggest a model in which the dNTP alterations in the ndk and dcd strains interfere with the activation of RecA, thereby preventing LexA cleavage and SOS induction.
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