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Replication through damaged sites in DNA requires in Escherichia coli the SOS stress-inducible DNA polymerase V (UmuC), which is specialized for lesion bypass. Homologs of the umuC gene were found on native conjugative plasmids, which often carry multiple antibiotic-resistant genes. MucB is a UmuC homolog present on plasmid R46, and its variant plasmid pKM101 has been introduced into Salmonella strains for use in the Ames test for mutagens. Using a translesion replication assay based on a gapped plasmid carrying a site-specific synthetic abasic site in the single-stranded DNA region, we show that MucB is a DNA polymerase, termed pol RI, which is specialized for lesion bypass. The activity of pol RI requires the plasmid-encoded MucA' protein and the E. coli RecA and single-strand DNA binding proteins. Elimination of any of the proteins from the reaction abolished lesion bypass and polymerase activity. The unprocessed MucA could not substitute for MucA' in the bypass reaction. The presence of a lesion bypass DNA polymerase on a native conjugative plasmid, which has a broad host range specificity and carries multiple antibiotic-resistant genes, raises the possibility that mutagenesis caused by pol RI plays a role in the spreading of antibiotic resistance among bacterial pathogens.

Plasmid-encoded MucB protein is a DNA polymerase (pol RI) specialized for lesion bypass in the presence of MucA′, RecA, and SSB