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Fragments of the E. coli chromosome that carry the dnaB groPB534 or groPB612 alleles have been cloned into a cosmid vector. The resulting recombinant plasmids contained the genes uvrA, groP (B534 or B612), and lexA. Further subcloning into high copy number plasmids, during which the uvrA and lexA genes were removed successively, yielded a groPB534 and groPB612 DNA fragment of about 2.4 kb each. Both fragments contained an overlapping 1.8 kb segment of DNA in which the sites of all restriction enzymes tested were identical. The size of these dnaB gene fragments were further delimited by deletion analysis.
In E. coli groPB534 in which λ wild-type and λπA mutants do not replicate (Georgopoulos and Herskowitz 1971) phage replication is rescued if the strain contains the groPB534 gene on high copy number plasmids. On the contrary, in E. coli groPB612, which is temperature-sensitive for its groP character, replication of λ and λπA is abolished at 30° C if the strain contains the groPB612 recombinant plasmid. On the other hand, replication of λπB remains unaffected whether or not the groP strains harbor the isogenic dnaB gene-containing plasmid. The results suggest that within the cell not only the quality but also the relative amounts of dnaB and λP protein are crucial for λ phage replication.
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Günther, E., Bagdasarian, M. & Schuster, H. Cloning of the dnaB gene of Escherichia coli: The dnaB gene of groPB534 and groPB612 and the replication of phage λ. Molec Gen Genet 193, 225–230 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00330672
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