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GENETICS
Volume 209, Issue 4, Pages 1029-1042Publisher
GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.118.301237
Keywords
mismatch repair; mutation accumulation; mutation hotspots; DNA replication accuracy; DNA polymerase fidelity
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- United States (US) Army Research Office Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Award [W911NF-09-1-0444]
- National Institutes of Health award [T32 GM007757]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [T32GM007757] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Mismatch repair (MMR) is a major contributor to replication fidelity, but its impact varies with sequence context and the nature of the mismatch. Mutation accumulation experiments followed by whole-genome sequencing of MMR-defective Escherichia coli strains yielded approximate to 30,000base-pair substitutions (BPSs), revealing mutational patterns across the entire chromosome. The BPS spectrum was dominated by A:T to G:C transitions, which occurred predominantly at the center base of 5NAC3+5GTN3 triplets. Surprisingly, growth on minimal medium or at low temperature attenuated these mutations. Mononucleotide runs were also hotspots for BPSs, and the rate at which these occurred increased with run length. Comparison with approximate to 2000BPSs accumulated in MMR-proficient strains revealed that both kinds of hotspots appeared in the wild-type spectrum and so are likely to be sites of frequent replication errors. In MMR-defective strains transitions were strand biased, occurring twice as often when A and C rather than T and G were on the lagging-strand template. Loss of nucleotide diphosphate kinase increases the cellular concentration of dCTP, which resulted in increased rates of mutations due to misinsertion of C opposite A and T. In an mmr ndk double mutant strain, these mutations were more frequent when the template A and T were on the leading strand, suggesting that lagging-strand synthesis was more error-prone, or less well corrected by proofreading, than was leading strand synthesis.
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