Cloning of the determinants for microcin D93 production and analysis of three different D-type microcin plasmids |
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Authors: | J L Martínez J C Pérez-Díaz |
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Affiliation: | Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain. |
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Abstract: | Three different microcin plasmids coding for D-type microcins were analyzed. Two of the plasmids (pMccD93 and pCP101) were small, multicopy plasmids and were closely related. The third plasmid (pCP106) was a conjugative, antibiotic multiresistance plasmid. Although plasmids pCP101 and pCP106 were previously classified as A-type microcin plasmids, we have determined that they are, in fact, D type. Furthermore, the determinants for microcin D93 production were cloned from plasmid pMccD93, and a DNA probe for the region implicated in the synthesis of microcin was obtained. This probe hybridized to plasmid C from Escherichia coli strain V517, indicating that this plasmid might be involved in the synthesis of a D-type microcin. The characteristics of replication of plasmid pCP106 were analyzed and appeared to be similar to those of ColEl plasmids, although pCP106 is a conjugative single-copy plasmid. |
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