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Large quantities of dihydrofolate reductase are synthesized in bacteriophage T5 infected E. coli cells. Some evidence that this enzyme is the product of a viral gene was published by Mathews (1967). Further evidence is presented now by showing that the newly synthesized enzyme differs from the preexisting E. coli reductase in molecular weight and salt solubility.
The expression of the T5 dihydrofolate reductase gene was not affected by deletions in the del region of the phage genome. The map position of the reductase gene was determined by marker rescue experiments designed as helped transfection procedure: When E. coli B cells were preinfected with T5 dihydrofolate reductase amber mutants, made competent, and transfected with T5 wild type DNA, viable phages were obtained. Wild type recombinant phages were observed, when the transfecting DNA had been digested with the restriction endonucleases EcoRI, HpaI, PstI, and SalI. No rescue occurred when the DNA had been digested with AluI, EcoRII, HindII, HindIII, MboII, Sau3A, and XbaI. Single EcoRI, HpaI, and SalI restriction fragments were isolated and found to rescue the dihydrofolate reductase gene. Their common overlapping sequence corresponds to 8.6% of the phage DNA, a segment of about 10,000 base pairs length, which extends from position 0.37 to position 0.46 of the physical map. After cleaving this segment at its single HindIII recognition site marker rescue no longer occurred. From these results it was concluded that the dihydrofolate reductase gene either lies at or very close to this site at position 0.4.
The helped transfection method was also used to rescue T5 mutants with defects in the genes C2 and D9. Gene C2 was localized on an EcoRI fragment that covers the DNA from map position 0.08 to map position 0.25. By localizing the two genes B3 and C2 on the restriction map of the T5 DNA a correlation of the genetic and the physical maps of the T5 genome has been established.
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Abbreviations. The symbols for T5 phages follow those of McCorquodale (1975) and the nomenclature for restriction nucleases that of Smith and Nathans (1973). kb=kilo base pairs
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Peter, G., Hänggi, U.J. & Zachau, H.G. Localization of the dihydrofolate reductase gene on the physical map of bacteriophage T5. Molec. gen. Genet. 175, 333–341 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00397233
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