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Science 3 October 1997:
Vol. 278. no. 5335, pp. 128 - 130
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5335.128
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Counteraction by MutT Protein of Transcriptional Errors Caused by Oxidative Damage

F. Taddei, *dagger H. Hayakawa, M.-F. Bouton, A.-M. Cirinesi, I. Matic, M. Sekiguchi, M. Radman

Oxidized guanine (8-oxo-7,8-dihydroguanine; 8-oxo-G) is a potent mutagen because of its ambiguous pairing with cytosine and adenine. The Escherichia coli MutT protein specifically hydrolyzes both 8-oxo-deoxyguanosine triphosphate (8-oxo-dGTP) and 8-oxo-guanosine triphosphate (8-oxo-rGTP), which are otherwise incorporated in DNA and RNA opposite template A. In vivo, this cleaning of the nucleotide pools decreases both DNA replication and transcription errors. The effect of mutT mutation on transcription fidelity was shown to depend on oxidative metabolism. Such control of transcriptional fidelity by the ubiquitous MutT function has implications for evolution of RNA-based life, phenotypic expression, adaptive mutagenesis, and functional maintenance of nondividing cells.

F. Taddei, M.-F. Bouton, A.-M. Cirinesi, I. Matic, M. Radman, Institut Jacques Monod, Tour 43, 2 place Jussieu, 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France.
H. Hayakawa, Department of Biochemistry, Medical School, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812, Japan.
M. Sekiguchi, Department of Biology, Fukuoka Dental College, Sawara, Fukuoka 814-01, Japan.
*   Present address: Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale.

dagger    To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: taddei{at}ijm.jussieu.fr

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