Tagging of Bacillus subtilis soil isolates through illegitimate recombination for PCR detection |
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Authors: | Joel Lara-Reyna Víctor Olalde-Portugal Gabriela Olmedo-Alvarez |
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Affiliation: | (1) Departamento de Ingeniería Genética, CINVESTAV IPN, Unidad Irapuato, Apartado postal 629, Irapuato, Gto. 36500, México;(2) Departamento de Biotecnología y Bioquímica, CINVESTAV IPN, Unidad Irapuato, Apartado postal 629, Irapuato, Gto. 36500, México |
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Abstract: | Although there are numerous bacteria of the genus Bacillus of great importance for biological control, little is known about their ecology in the soil. We wanted to test illegitimate recombination as a tagging system that would allow us to study selected or genetically engineered Bacillus soil isolates. Strains carrying the plasmid integrated into the chromosome were obtained by growing at a non-permissive temperature after transformation with a plasmid carrying a thermo-sensitive replication origin with selection for erythromycin. A laboratory strain, a commercial strain (Kodiak), and four other soil isolates were generated through this procedure and analysed. In all of these strains the integrated plasmid was maintained in multicopy. The erythromycin resistance gene (ermB) placed on the plasmid was used as a target for polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The tagged strains could be then detected when inoculated into microcosms prepared with non-sterile soil. |
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Keywords: | Bacillus illegitimate recombination PCR soil |
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