Deoxythymidine nucleotide metabolism in Bacillus subtilis W23 infected with bacteriophage SP1Oc: preliminary evidence that dTMP in SP10c DNA is synthesized by a novel, bacteriophage-specific mechanism.
Despite the fact that mature SP10c DNA contains dTMP, the acid-soluble fraction of infected cells contained no dTTP during the interval of phage replication. However, infected cells contained normal cellular levels of dATP, dGTP, and dCTP. Upon infection of deoxythymidine-starved Bacillus subtilis M160 (a deoxythymidine-requiring mutant of B. subtilis W23), mature phage DNA with a normal dTMP content was made. SP10c codes for an enzyme that seems to catalyze the tetrahydrofolate-dependent transfer of 1-carbon fragments to the 5 position of dUMP. The transfer of 1-carbon fragments is not accompanied by oxidation of tetrahydrofolage to dihydrofolate, implying that the enzyme in question is not a dTMP synthetase. It is proposed that dTMP in mature SP10c DNA is derived by the postreplicational modification of some other nucleotide and not by the direct incorporation of dTTP into DNA.
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