Affiliation:
1. Department of General Microbiology, University of Edinburgh, College of Agriculture, Edinburgh 9, Scotland
Abstract
The survival of biological activity in irradiated transforming deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) has been assayed in the wild type and a radiation-sensitive mutant of
Micrococcus radiodurans
. The frequency of transformation with unirradiated DNA was lower in the mutant to about the same extent as the mutant's increased sensitivity to radiation. However, in both the wild type and the mutant, the irradiated DNA that was incorporated into the bacterial genome was repaired to the same extent as determined by the loss of transforming activity with increasing radiation dose. This applied to DNA irradiated either with ionizing or ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The rate of inactivation of biological activity after UV radiation was the same in any of the DNA preparations tested. For ionizing radiation, the rate of inactivation varied up to 40-fold, depending on the DNA preparation used, but for any one preparation was the same whether assayed in the wild type or the radiation-sensitive mutant. When recipient bacteria were irradiated with ionizing or UV radiation immediately before transformation, the frequency of transformation with unirradiated DNA fell, rapidly and exponentially in the case of the sensitive mutant but in a more complicated fashion in the wild type. The repair of DNA irradiated with ionizing radiation was approximately the same whether assayed in unirradiated or irradiated hosts. Thus, irradiation of the host reduced the integration of DNA but not its repair.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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