Instability of Rts1 (Drug-Resistant Factor) Replicon: Stabilization by DNA Fragments Derived from Rts1 |
| |
Authors: | Hiroshi Yonemitsu Toshiaki Fujihashi Hirotaka Higuchi Howard Hong Hideaki Morishige Shunji Mochida Akira Kaji |
| |
Affiliation: | Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104 |
| |
Abstract: | Rts1 is a large naturally occurring plasmid which has a kanamycin resistance gene and exhibits various temperature-sensitive phenotypes. A smaller derivative of plasmid, pOK, contains the Rts1 replicon and the kanamycin resistance gene of Rts1. This plasmid, pOK, is much more unstable than Rts1 at 42.5°C. A DNA fragment, G3, 1590 nucleotides long from Rts1 DNA, stabilized pOK completely at 42.5°C but only in thecisconfiguration. G3did not change the copy number of pOK. The pOK derivative containing G3was destabilized by the presence of a compatible plasmid containing G3. G3has four inverted repeats, two 14-base direct repeats, and three ORFs. Smaller fragment of G3also had a stabilization effect and these studies showed that the ORF does not play any role in stabilization. |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 ScienceDirect 等数据库收录! |
|