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J Bacteriol. 1988 August; 170(8): 3321-3326

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Conditional impairment of cell division and altered lethality in hipA mutants of Escherichia coli K-12.

R Scherrer and H S Moyed

Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, California College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine 92717.

ABSTRACT

Mutations in hipA, a gene of Escherichia coli K-12, greatly reduce the lethality of selective inhibition of peptidoglycan synthesis. These mutations have also been found to reduce the lethality that accompanies either selective inhibition of DNA synthesis or heat shock of strains defective in htpR. In addition, the mutant alleles of hipA are responsible for a reversible cold-sensitive block in cell division and synthesis of macromolecules, particularly peptidoglycan. Recombination between the chromosome of hipA mutants and plasmids containing noncomplementing fragments of hipA+ revealed that the mutations responsible for both cold sensitivity and reduced lethality were probably identical and, in any case, lay within the first 360 base pairs of the coding region of hipA, probably within the first 50 base pairs. We suggest that the pleiotropic effects of mutations in hipA reflect the involvement of this gene in cell division.

J Bacteriol. 1988 August; 170(8): 3321-3326




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