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Very short patch repair: reducing the cost of cytosine methylation.

In Escherichia coli and related bacteria, the product of gene dcm methylates the second cytosine of 5'-CCWGG sequences (where W is A or T). Deamination of 5-methylcytosine (5meC) results in C to T mutations. The mutagenic potential of 5meC is reduced by a system called very short patch (VSP) repair, which replaces T with C. T:G and U:G mispairs in the methylatable sequence and in related sequences are recognized by the product of vsr, a gene adjacent to dcm. Vsr creates a nick just 5' of the mispaired pyrimidine to initiate the repair. Additional products known to be required for VSP repair are DNA polymerase I and DNA ligase. MutS and MutL have a stimulatory role but are not required. The ability of Vsr to recognize T:G mispairs in sequences related to CCWGG is probably responsible for over- and under-representation of certain tetranucleotides in the E. coli genome. Although VSP repair reduces spontaneous mutations at 5meCs in replicating bacteria, mutation hot-spots persist at these sites. Under conditions that more accurately mimic the natural environment of E. coli, VSP repair appears to be effective in preventing mutation at 5meC.[1]

References

  1. Very short patch repair: reducing the cost of cytosine methylation. Lieb, M., Bhagwat, A.S. Mol. Microbiol. (1996) [Pubmed]
 
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