The genes hsdM and hsdS for M. EcoKI modification methyltransferase and the complete set of hsdR, hsdM and hsdS genes coding for R. EcoKI restriction endonuclease, both with and without a temperature-sensitive (ts) mutation in hsdS gene, were cloned in pBR322 plasmid and introduced into E. coli C (a strain without a natural restriction-modification (R-M) system). The strains producing only the methyltransferase, or together with the endonuclease, were thus obtained. The hsdSts-1 mutation, mapped previously in the distal variable region of the hsdS gene with C1 245-T transition has no effect on the R-M phenotype expressed from cloned genes in bacteria grown at 42 degrees C. In clones transformed with the whole hsd region an alleviation of R-M functions was observed immediately after the transformation, but after subculture the transformants expressed the wild-type R-M phenotype irrespective of whether the wild-type or the mutant hsdS allele was present in the hybrid plasmid. Simultaneous overproduction of HsdS and HsdM subunits impairs the ts effect of the hsdSts-1 mutation on restriction and modification.

Institute of Microbiology Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Prague

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