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Journal of Bacteriology, March 2001, p. 1862-1869, Vol. 183, No. 6
0021-9193/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.6.1862-1869.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

T7 Single Strand DNA Binding Protein but Not T7 Helicase Is Required for DNA Double Strand Break Repair

Man Yu1 and Warren Masker1,2,*

Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology1 and Department of Biochemistry,2 Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19140

Received 11 September 2000/Accepted 14 December 2000

An in vitro system based on Escherichia coli infected with bacteriophage T7 was used to test for involvement of host and phage recombination proteins in the repair of double strand breaks in the T7 genome. Double strand breaks were placed in a unique XhoI site located approximately 17% from the left end of the T7 genome. In one assay, repair of these breaks was followed by packaging DNA recovered from repair reactions and determining the yield of infective phage. In a second assay, the product of the reactions was visualized after electrophoresis to estimate the extent to which the double strand breaks had been closed. Earlier work demonstrated that in this system double strand break repair takes place via incorporation of a patch of DNA into a gap formed at the break site. In the present study, it was found that extracts prepared from uninfected E. coli were unable to repair broken T7 genomes in this in vitro system, thus implying that phage rather than host enzymes are the primary participants in the predominant repair mechanism. Extracts prepared from an E. coli recA mutant were as capable of double strand break repair as extracts from a wild-type host, arguing that the E. coli recombinase is not essential to the recombinational events required for double strand break repair. In T7 strand exchange during recombination is mediated by the combined action of the helicase encoded by gene 4 and the annealing function of the gene 2.5 single strand binding protein. Although a deficiency in the gene 2.5 protein blocked double strand break repair, a gene 4 deficiency had no effect. This argues that a strand transfer step is not required during recombinational repair of double strand breaks in T7 but that the ability of the gene 2.5 protein to facilitate annealing of complementary single strands of DNA is critical to repair of double strand breaks in T7.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biochemistry, Temple University School of Medicine, 3400 N. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19140. Phone: (215) 707-3973. Fax: (215) 707-7536. E-mail: wmasker{at}thunder.temple.edu.

Journal of Bacteriology, March 2001, p. 1862-1869, Vol. 183, No. 6
0021-9193/01/$04.00+0   DOI: 10.1128/JB.183.6.1862-1869.2001
Copyright © 2001, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


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