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Isolation and characterization of mutations in the structural gene for protease III (ptr).

ABSTRACT

Escherichia coli mutants defective in protease III were isolated by enzyme assays of heavily mutagenized colones. One mutant produced thermolabile enzyme, and it is presumed to have a mutation in the structural gene of protease III. Two other mutants mapping at the same site had less than 5% of the wild-type protease III level. The genetic locus of these mutations, designated ptr, was located at approximately 60 min on the E. coli linkage map based on its high frequency (70%) of contransduction by P1 with argA. Strains with less than 5% of the wild-type protease III activity grew normally and degraded nonsense fragments of beta-galactosidase at wild-type rates.

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