A simple method for shortening a plasmid genome using a system of plasmid cointegration mediated by a Tn3 mutant |
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Authors: | H Ohtsubo B Vassino T Ryder E Ohtsubo |
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Affiliation: | Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794 U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | This paper describes a simple method for the isolation of small plasmids of various sizes from pSMI, a derivative of the resistance plasmid R 100. The method is based on the observation that a repressor-negative mutant of the ampicillin-resistance (ampr) transposon Tn3, Tn3 No. 5, mediates cointegration of a plasmid carrying Tn 3 No. 5 (pMB8::Tn 3 No. 5) into virtually any site on pSMI. The resulting cointegrate plasmids contain the pSMI sequence which is joined with the ampr gene of the Tn 3 mutant. This cointegration is so frequent that large cointegrate plasmids can be readily detected in the total plasmid DNA prepared from cells carrying pSMI and pMB8::Tn3 No. 5. We were able to isolate small plasmids of various sizes by digesting the total plasmid DNAs with restriction endonucleases which cut both pSM 1 and Tn3 No. 5 sequences present in the cointegrates and subsequently ligating the restriction fragment containing both the ampr gene and the region necessary for replication of pSMI. Analysis of these plasmids, named pBV plasmids, with restriction endonucleases and by nucleotide sequencing allowed us to determine regions necessary or unnecessary for replication, thus defining a minimal replication region of pSMI. The present method is generally useful for the isolation of small derivatives from any large plasmid for the study of genes and sites adjacent to or within the minimal replication region of the plasmid. |
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Keywords: | Repressor-negative transposon resistance plasmid R 100 minimal replication region ampicillin resistance gene bp base pairs EtBr ethidium bromide kb kilobase pairs :: novel joint |
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