Restriction pattern and polypeptide homology among plasmid-borne mercury resistance determinants.

abstract：:Single plasmids designed to express the six human type I steroid hormone receptors and detect signaling activity are described in this report. These stably replicating plasmids reported ligand-induced transcriptional activation via lacZ assays in Baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). The ligand concentrations need...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Miller CA 3rd,Tan X,Wilson M,Bhattacharyya S,Ludwig S

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variovorax sp. strain DB1 and Pseudomonas pickettii strain 712 are 2,4-dicholorophenoxy-acetic acid (2,4-D)-degrading bacteria, which were isolated from agricultural soils in Republic of Korea and USA, respectively. Each strain harbors a 2,4-D degradative plasmid and is able to utilize 2,4-D as the sole source of carb...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Kim DU,Kim MS,Lim JS,Ka JO

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten strains of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides were analyzed by agarose gel electrophoresis for plasmid DNA content and, by filter-hybridizations, for their molecular relationships. All strains examined contained at least one plasmid. Several strains carried as many as six different plasmid species with sizes ranging fro...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Fornari CS,Watkins M,Kaplan S

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to select insertion sequences able to promote transcription of flanking genes (ISp elements), three mobilizable RSF1010 derived vectors were constructed. Using promoterless antibiotic resistance genes, ISp elements ranging from 0.75 to 2.9 kb were isolated from Escherichia coli and Rhizobium meliloti. Restric...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Labes G,Simon R

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium glutamicum is an industrial microorganism for production of amino acids. However, the metabolic engineering in C. glutamicum has been retarded due to lack of suitable vectors. In this study, we have constructed a shuttle vector pDXW-10 which harbors a large multiple cloning site suitable for cloning mu...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Xu D,Tan Y,Shi F,Wang X

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:pSK41 is a prototypical 46-kb conjugative multiresistance plasmid of Staphylococcus aureus. The pSK41 replication initiation protein (Rep) is rate-limiting for plasmid replication, and its expression is negatively regulated by a small, non-coding antisense transcript, RNAI, that is complementary to the rep mRNA leader...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Kwong SM,Firth N

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA interference is a widely used tool for analysis of gene function in mammalian cells. Stable knockdown of specific target genes can be maintained in cell lines and live organisms using vector-based delivery of short hairpins (shRNAs) driven by RNA polymerase III promoters. Here we describe a vector incorporating th...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Sotirova VN,Calciano MA,Krueger W,Lalande M

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have evaluated the ability of immortalized human fibroblasts to recombine transfected plasmid DNA. A number of cell lines from normal individuals and from patients with DNA damage-processing defects were examined. Two plasmid recombination substrates were derived from pSV2neo and contained nonoverlapping deletions ...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Timme TL,Wood CM,Moses RE

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA sequence of the resolvase gene, resolution sites, and the region between the transposition functions and the end of the mercury resistance operon of the bacterial transposon, Tn3926, is presented. The sequence of Tn3926 upstream of the resolution sites is homologous to that bordering the 11.2-kb insert of Tn21...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Osbourn SE,Turner AK,Grinsted J

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chimeric plasmid pBN183 was first constructed in Escherichia coli by ligating the BamHI-digested E. coli plasmid pBR322 and a Bg/II-linearized streptococcal plasmid, pNZ18. The pBN183 transformed E. coli to ApR at a frequency of (8.2 +/- 1.2) x 10(5) colony forming units (CFU)/microgram DNA. Electrotransformation ...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Solaiman DK,Somkuti GA,Steinberg DH

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two distinct families of repetitive DNA elements (1.4 and 1.2 kb) were identified from S1 nuclease-treated genomic DNA of four strains of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. The 1.4-kb fragment hybridized with IST2, an insertion sequence of T. ferrooxidans. The 1.2-kb fragment was cloned and sequenced. The sequence (IST445), 1...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Chakraborty R,Deb C,Lohia A,Roy P

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the in vivo assembly of chromatin on prokaryotic DNA templates, we have transformed yeast cells with plasmids pAJ50 and pRB58, which contain pBR322 sequences. In both cases nucleosomes are assembled in vivo on pBR322 DNA, although the nucleosomes are not homogeneous in size. To explore whether there ...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Estruch F,Pérez-Ortín JE,Matallana E,Franco L

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two-hybrid system was used to show that the Rep proteins from three members of the Dictyostelium discoideum Ddp2 plasmid family, Ddp2, Ddp5, and Ddp6, form homomultimers but not heteromultimers when expressed in yeast cells. The results with deletion mutations suggest that multiple regions of the Rep proteins are ...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Shammat IM,Welker DL

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally occurring plasmids have medical importance given that they frequently code for virulence or antibiotic resistance. In many cases, plasmids impose a fitness cost to their hosts, meaning that the growth rate of plasmid-bearing cells is lower than that of plasmid-free cells. However, this does not fit with the ...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Gama JA,Zilhão R,Dionisio F

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The imidazole and triazole fungicides inhibit cytochrome P450 14 alpha-lanosterol demethylase (P45014DM) implicated in the ergosterol biosynthesis pathway, which is specific to fungi and yeasts. Two plasmids were obtained which allow triazole and imidazole resistance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The low copy number pl...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Doignon F,Aigle M,Ribereau-Gayon P

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the transcriptional activity of the HIV-1 LTR, we constructed a vector containing Renilla and Firefly luciferase genes under the control of the LTR (wild-type or mutated version) and oriented in a manner that allowed them to be transcribed in opposite directions. We found that the HIV-1 LTR acted as a bidirec...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Arpin-André C,Laverdure S,Barbeau B,Gross A,Mesnard JM

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new cryptic plasmid from a multi-resistant, multi-plasmid clinical strain of Escherichia coli has been isolated. The sequence of the 4072-base-pair pIGWZ12 (GenBank Accession No. DQ311641) was determined and analyzed. Two open-reading frames that code for proteins involved in plasmid mobilization and initiation of r...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Zaleski P,Wolinowska R,Strzezek K,Lakomy A,Plucienniczak A

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and rapid method for determining plasmid copy number is described. The eukaryotic luc gene is used as a marker to tag plasmid derivatives of several well-known vectors, and by measuring light activity plasmid copy number is determined. A comparative analysis using a standard hybridization procedure to estimat...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Coronado C,Vázquez ME,Cebolla A,Palomares AJ

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of the 7.5-kb cryptic plasmid of Chlamydia trachomatis serovar L2 was investigated. Faint, diffuse transcripts of about 1.6 and 2.2 kb and intense short transcripts of about 250 and 430 bases were identified by Northern blot analysis. The short transcripts were found to have a common 5' end corresponding...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Fahr MJ,Sriprakash KS,Hatch TP

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coupling sequences are the 6 bp flanking the conjugative transposon Tn916 and are thought to play a role in determining the frequency of conjugative transposition. The affinity of binding of a chimeric protein, which consisted of maltose binding protein fused to the carboxy-terminal DNA binding domain of Tn916 integra...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Pethel B,Churchward G

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown previously that the copy number of plasmid pSY10 from the marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. NKBG 042902 is dependent on the salinity of the growth medium. We report here the complete nucleotide sequence (2561 bp) of this plasmid. The longest open reading frame, ORF-B (1.08 kb), occurs on a 1.6-kb E...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Kawaguchi R,Nagaoka T,Burgess JG,Takeyama H,Matsunaga T

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterologous expression in Escherichia coli is often limited by yield and solubility of the foreign protein in the bacterial cytoplasm. In many cases, overexpression also results in growth inhibition. In order to produce retroviral proteins that are especially difficult to overexpress in E. coli, we designed a set of ...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Valverde V,Duplan H,Knibiehler M,Masson JM

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure for the isolation of closed circular mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from cells permeabilized with digitonin is described. Compared to the standard procedure in which cells are broken after osmotic swelling, the digitonin-based procedure is more consistent and results in higher mtDNA yields. ...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Howell N,Nalty MS,Appel J

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two independently isolated temperature-sensitive bacteriophage that are specific for enterobacterial hosts harboring HI and HII plasmids were characterized to determine if any identifiable differences existed between them. The traits examined included adsorption pattern of phage to H pili, bacteriophage size, sensitiv...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Maher D,Sherburne R,Taylor DE

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incompatibility region of the Streptomyces plasmid pSL1 was identified as a 240-bp segment, though some other function from the vector plasmid was also necessary. A 540-bp fragment including the 240-bp region was enough for full expression of incompatibility. Inserted mutation analysis led to a more detailed locat...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Urabe H,Shindoh Y,Nakano MM,Ogawara H

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid pT181 is a small multicopy plasmid from Staphylococcus aureus that belongs to incompatibility group 3 and expresses two distinct types of incompatibility, Inc3A and Inc3B. Inc3A incompatibility is expressed by the primary replication control determinant, copA, which specifies two small transcripts, RNA I and R...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Highlander SK,Novick RP

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The replication (rep) regions of small plasmids from three Sinorhizobium meliloti strains were cloned by marker rescue. Two unique replication regions were identified, one of which was common to two different strains. Plasmid pBB83 carried a 7.2 kbp rep region from a 42 kbp plasmid, and pBB84 carried a 4.5 kbp rep reg...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Watson RJ,Heys R

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The galactose operon of Escherichia coli K-12 has been used as a phenotypic marker for miniplasmids derived in vitro from R plasmids representing six incompatibility groups. This has enabled the development of a rapid incompatibility typing scheme in which the miniplasmids are used as incompatibility exemplars, their ...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Davey RB,Bird PI,Nikoletti SM,Praszkier J,Pittard J

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tools for mutagenesis and expression analyses are needed to study the role of bacterial genes. Here, we report the construction of pMH11, a small, mobilizable plasmid that replicates in Escherichia coli, but not in Azorhizobium caulinodans, a nodulating microsymbiont of Sesbania rostrata, and that contains a unique Ba...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： D'Haeze W,Verplancke C,Mironov V,Holsters M

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactococcus lactis ME2 can transfer a 46-kb plasmid, pTR2030, which encodes abortive phage infection (Hsp) and restriction/modification (R/M) activities. pTR2030 can be detected as a monomeric plasmid in transconjugants at low copy number, but not in ME2. pTR2030-specific probes were cloned and used to determine the l...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Hill C,Miller LA,Klaenhammer TR

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00