Role of homology and pathway specificity for recombination between plasmids and bacteriophage lambda |
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Authors: | Steven R King and John P Richardson |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 47405 Bloomington, IN, USA;(2) Program in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Indiana University, 47405 Bloomington, IN, USA;(3) Present address: McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin, 450 North Randall Avenue, 53706 Madison, WI, USA |
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Abstract: | Summary To determine the minimum amount of homology required for efficient recombination in Escherichia coli, we measured recombination frequencies between bacteriophage and pBR322 derivatives containing DNA fragments of various sizes by assaying for phages that could transduce the bla and ori genes of pBR322. Efficient recombination required about 40 bp of homology; increases in homology above 40 bp resulted in proportionate increases in recombination, while decreases below 40 bp resulted in precipitous decreases in recombination. The recA
+ gene stimulated recombination over the entire range of homologies tested. Restriction enzyme digests of several recombinant DNA molecules indicated that they contained the complete plasmid DNA inserted in the genome as expected for a reciprocal crossover. Analysis of recombination frequencies in different recombination-deficient mutant strains indicated that the formation of -plasmid cointegrates by homologous recombination proceeded predominantly by the RecBC pathway and very inefficiently, if at all, by the RecE and RecF pathways. |
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Keywords: | Homologous recombination pBR322 RecA protein RecBC pathway |
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