Identification andin silico characterisation of putative conjugative transfer genes onGeobacillus stearothermophilus plasmids |
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Authors: | Milda Stuknytė Simone Guglielmetti Giovanni Ricci Nomeda Kuisienė Diego Mora Carlo Parini Donaldas Čitavičius |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Plant Physiology and Microbiology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Vilnius University, ?iurlionio 21/27, 03101, Vilnius, Lithuania 2. Department of Food Science and Microbiology, Industrial Microbiology Section, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Milan, Via Celoria 2, 20133, Milan, Italy
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Abstract: | We repor the first data demonstrating the presence of putative conjugative transfer genes on plasmids of the speciesGeobacillus stearothermophilus. Partial sequence analysis of the plasmid pGS18 fromG. stearothermophilus 18 was determined. It contained eleven complete open reading frames. Five of them encoded proteins which are homologous toBacillus megaterium pBM300 Mob/TraA,Lactococcus lactis pMRC01 TrsD and TrsE,Staphylococcus aureus pGO1 TrsG andS. aureus subsp.aureus pUSA03 TraL, the proteins that are associated with conjugative plasmid transfer. Southern hybridizations were performed on two other plasmids isolated fromG. stearothermophilus 3 andG. stearothermophilus 19 strains using the most homologous parts of those five genes as probes. Data from different hybridization patterns show a close homology of putative conjugative transfer genes between pGS18 and pGS3 hypothesizing a similar molecular organization of putative conjugative plasmid transfer region of both plasmids. |
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