Tn917 transposition in Lactobacillus plantarum using the highly temperature-sensitive plasmid pTV1Ts as a vector |
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| Authors: | W M Cosby L T Axelsson W J Dobrogosz |
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| Institution: | Department of Microbiology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh 27695-7615. |
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| Abstract: | pTV1Ts, a temperature-sensitive plasmid coding for chloramphenicol (Cm) resistance and carrying the macrolide-lincosamide-steptogramin B (MLS) resistance transposon Tn917, was introduced into strains of Lactobacillus plantarum by electroporation. After two passages in broth medium selecting for MLS resistance at 40 degrees C and subsequent plating on solid medium, two strains, L. plantarum NC4Ts1 and L. plantarum NC7Ts5, lost chloramphenicol resistance but retained MLS resistance, indicative of Tn917 transposition into host DNA. Analysis of DNA from MLSrCms isolates from both strains revealed Tn917 insertions into resident plasmids. Restriction analysis of plasmid DNA from four MLSrCms isolates from NC7Ts5 indicated four different insertion sites. |
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