title: Cloning of mutH and identification of the gene product.
abstract: A specialized lambda transducing phage carrying the mutH gene and several deletion derivatives of this phage were characterized by restriction enzyme analysis. This analysis localized the mutH gene to a small region of bacterial DNA on the transducing phage and facilitated the subsequent cloning of this gene into the multicopy plasmid pBR322. The mutH gene is contained entirely on a 1.5-kb HindIII fragment as judged by the ability of plasmids carrying this fragment to complement mutH- alleles on the bacterial chromosome. Using recombinant plasmids containing the 1.5-kb HindIII fragment, we identified an Mr 25000 protein as the product of the mutH gene in an in vitro transcription-translation system as well as in maxicells. Various deletion derivatives of the mutH-containing plasmids that exhibit a Mut- phenotype also have lost the Mr 25000 protein.
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D010582:Bacteriophage lambda / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004262:DNA Restriction Enzymes; D004274:DNA, Recombinant / Q000378:metabolism*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics*; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010957:Plasmids; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D014158:Transcription, Genetic; D014161:Transduction, Genetic
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004274:DNA, Recombinant; D004262:DNA Restriction Enzymes