Copy Mutants of Plasmid R1: Effects of Base Pair Substitutions in the CopA Gene on the Replication Control System

Overview

Journal Mol Gen Genet

Specialties Genetics
Molecular Biology

Date 1984 Jan 1

PMID 6203014

Citations 21

Authors

M Givskov

S Molin

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Abstract

Five different copA copy mutants of plasmid R1 have been identified by nucleotide sequencing. Independent measurements of the activities of the mutant inhibitor RNA and of the mutant target properties were carried out using several different methods. Correlation of these measurements with the location of th nucleotide substitutions resulted in the following conclusions: (1) The copy number of plasmid R1 is controlled primarily by interaction between the CopA RNA molecule and its target, the RepA mRNA. (2) The binding of th inhibitor to its target is based on nucleotide interactions within two complementary sequences of ten nucleotides and dependent on the secondary structure of the active site. (3) The secondary structure of both the CopA target and the CopA RNA is a stem-loop structure. Mutations in the loop region interfere with binding affinity between inhibitor and target, whereas mutations in the upper stem mainly interfere with secondary structure. Mutations in the latter region create temperature-dependent copy number phenotypes.

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