Transformation of a new Gram-positive methylotroph,Brevibacterium methylicum,by plasmid DNA |
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Authors: | J. Nešvera M. Pátek J. Hochmannová E. Chibisova I. Serebrijski Y. Tsygankov A. Netrusov |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institute of Microbiology, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague 4, CS-142 20, Czechoslovakia;(2) Institute of Genetics of Industrial Microorganisms, SU-113 545 Moscow, USSR;(3) Department of Microbiology, Moscow State University, SU-119 899 Moscow, USSR |
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Abstract: | Summary Brevibacterium methylicum is a newly isolated Gram-positive facultatively methylotrophic bacterium that uses the NAD+-dependent methanol dehydrogenase for methanol oxidation and assimilates its carbon via the ribulose monophosphate cycle. Protoplasts prepared by lysozyme treatment of B. methylicum cells grown in the presence of glycine were transformed by plasmid shuttle vectors pCEM500 (16.5 kb; Smr/Spr, Kmr/Gmr) and pEC71 (7.1 kb; Kmr/Nmr) constructed on the basis of B. lactofermentum plasmid pAM330 and replicating in Escherichia coli and in amino-acid-producing coryneform bacteria. The resistance markers were found to be expressed in B. methylicum and autonomous plasmid DNAs of various size were isolated from the transformants. The presence of the pAM330 replicon in these plasmids was demonstrated by DNA-DNA hybridization experiments.Offprint requests to: J. Ne vera |
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