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dnaT, dominant conditional-lethal mutation affecting DNA replication in Escherichia coli.

ABSTRACT

Normally, bacteria cease DNA replication in the absence of protein synthesis. A variety of treatments, such as thymine starvation or a shift-up to rich medium, lead to continued DNA replication in the absence of protein synthesis. Mutants are described which always terminate replication under these conditions. These conditional lethal mutants, dnaT1 and dnaT2, contransduce with serB and dnaC. The mutation also affects cell division. All aspects of the mutant phenotype (obligatory termination of replication, temperature sensitivity of DNA replication and growth, and aberrant cell division at permissive growth temperatures) were transdominant to the wild-type phenotype. Episomes carrying the dnaT mutation appeared to be unstable. The existence of such a dominant mutation was predicted by a model of chromosome termination proposed by Kogoma and Lark (J. Mol. Biol. 94:243-256, 1975).

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