title: A plant cDNA that partially complements Escherichia coli recA mutations predicts a polypeptide not strongly homologous to RecA proteins.
abstract: A plant (Arabidopsis thaliana) cDNA previously selected for its ability to partially complement the UV sensitivity of Escherichia coli RecA-UvrC-Phr- mutants and designated DRT100 (DNA-damage repair/toleration) was subcloned into a high-copy-number plasmid and expressed via a bacterial promotor. It increased resistance of RecA-UvrB-Phr- bacteria to mitomycin C and methyl methanesulfonate as well as to UV light. This lack of specificity, and its ability to increase resistance in both UvrB- and UvrC- mutants, suggested that Drt100 activity might be complementing RecA- phenotypes. DRT100 partially complemented three RecA- phenotypes thought to reflect deficiencies in homologous recombination--namely, inability to plate lambda red-gam- phages and P1 phages and to recombinationally integrate donor DNA during conjugal crosses--but did not complement inability to induce E. coli SOS functions. The 395-amino acid DRT100 open reading frame encodes an apparent N-terminal chloroplast transit peptide and a putative 322-residue mature protein with a conserved nucleotide binding motif, but otherwise little global homology with bacterial RecA proteins. There are several tandemly repeated leucine-rich motifs. DNA from two closely related plants, but not from maize, hybridized strongly to a DRT100 cDNA probe.
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Oregon State University, Corvallis 97331-6502.
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Pang
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Hays
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rajagopal
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D004247:DNA / Q000235:genetics; D004260:DNA Repair; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D017343:Genes, Plant; D005816:Genetic Complementation Test; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics*; D011938:Rec A Recombinases / Q000235:genetics*; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D010940:Plant Proteins; D004247:DNA; D011938:Rec A Recombinases