Second-element Turn-on of Gene Expression in an IS1 Insertion Mutant

Overview

Journal Mol Gen Genet

Specialties Genetics
Molecular Biology

Date 1988 Feb 1

PMID 2832704

Citations 14

Authors

E Schwartz

C Herberger

B Rak

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Abstract

To learn more about the ways in which genes silenced by insertion mutations can be reactivated, we have undertaken a systematic investigation of Gal+ revertants of the polar mutant galOP-306::IS1 in Escherichia coli K12. The selective conditions used excluded reversion to wild type by precise excision of IS1. In this system (which resided on a multi-copy plasmid) reversion to the Gal+ phenotype occurred with a frequency of about 10(-7) per cell and per generation. Analysis of the revertants revealed that - with the single exception of the previously published chromosomal mutant sis1 - alterations in the structure of IS1 lead to reactivation of gal operon expression. These events fall into four classes: (I) insertion of IS2 at position 327 in IS1, insertion of IS2 at position 687 in IS1, (III) insertion of a hitherto undetected mobile element, IS150, at position 387, (IV) a 16-bp deletion encompassing IS1 coordinates 553-568. Of some 200 independent reversion events studied, all but one were of types I-III i.e. they involved the intervention of a second mobile element.

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