Construction of cloning vectors for Bacillus thuringiensis. |
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Authors: | O Arantes D Lereclus |
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Institution: | Unité de Biochimie Microbienne, URA 1300, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. |
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Abstract: | The replication region of the Bacillus thuringiensis plasmid, pHT1030, was treated with hydroxylamine. Various copy-number mutants were selected and subsequently used to construct shuttle vectors with multiple cloning sites. These recombinant plasmids are very stable and allowed the cloning of a delta-endotoxin-encoding gene in B. thuringiensis. Comparison between gene expression level and vector copy-number indicated that a plateau in delta-endotoxin production is reached with a copy-number of about fifteen per equivalent chromosome. |
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