Tompkins Joshua D, Nelson Jennifer L, Hazel Jill C, Leugers Stacy L, Stumpf Jeffrey D, Foster Patricia L
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA.
J Bacteriol. 2003 Jun;185(11):3469-72. doi: 10.1128/JB.185.11.3469-3472.2003.
The frequencies of nonselected mutations among adaptive Lac(+) revertants of Escherichia coli strains with and without the error-prone DNA polymerase IV (Pol IV) were compared. This frequency was more than sevenfold lower in the Pol IV-defective strain than in the wild-type strain. Thus, the mutations that occur during hypermutation are due to Pol IV.
比较了有和没有易出错DNA聚合酶IV(Pol IV)的大肠杆菌菌株的适应性Lac(+)回复突变体中未选择突变的频率。在Pol IV缺陷型菌株中,该频率比野生型菌株低七倍多。因此,超突变过程中发生的突变是由Pol IV引起的。