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. 1987 Jan;133(1):119-26.
doi: 10.1099/00221287-133-1-119.

Molecular cloning and isolation of a cyanobacterial gene which increases the UV and methyl methanesulphonate survival of recA strains of Escherichia coli K12

C M Geoghegan  1 , J A Houghton
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Molecular cloning and isolation of a cyanobacterial gene which increases the UV and methyl methanesulphonate survival of recA strains of Escherichia coli K12

C M Geoghegan et al. J Gen Microbiol. 1987 Jan.

Abstract

The unicellular cyanobacterium Gloeocapsa alpicola contains both photoreactivation and excision repair mechanisms for correcting UV-induced damage to its cellular DNA. An 11.5 kb EcoRI fragment was isolated from a cosmid bank of G. alpicola and was shown to complement a recA deletion in Escherichia coli S.17 and JC10289. These recA strains showed increased survival to UV and methyl methanesulphonate (MMS) when transformed with the cyanobacterial DNA fragment, and also showed filamentation in response to UV irradiation. Preliminary analysis of the protein encoded by the cyanobacterial DNA fragment indicated a major protein of 39,000 Da; this is very similar in size to the recA protein of E. coli.

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