Sensitivity of an Acinetobacter baylyi mpl mutant to DNA damage
Adityarup Chakravorty1, Martha Klovstad, Greg Peterson
1Department of Biology, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA 50112, USA.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|December 18, 2007
Abstract:
A mutant derived from Acinetobacter baylyi ADP1 was isolated from a screen for genes involved in the response to DNA damage. This derivative has an insertion in the mpl gene which encodes a peptidoglycan-recycling protein. We demonstrate that the insertion renders cells sensitive to mitomycin C and to UV.
