Molecular cloning and mapping of SphI restriction fragments of plasmid RP4.

abstract：:Identification of the Sym plasmid in Rhizobium phaseoli strain RCC3622 is described. Introduction of this plasmid into R. trifolii or Agrobacterium tumefaciens strains resulted in bacteria capable of forming characteristic spherical root nodules on beans. This Sym plasmid, designated pSym9, was characterized as 275 MD...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Hooykaas PJ,den Dulk-Ras H,Regensburg-Tuïnk AJ,van Brussel AA,Schilperoort RA

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The large, 350-kb Sym (symbiotic) plasmid pRjaUSDA193 of Rhizobium fredii was examined to determine the frequency of repeated sequences present and to produce a physical and genetic map of a large region of the plasmid. A novel hybridization method, the Southern Cross, revealed that the plasmid pRjaUSDA193 contained m...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Masterson RV,Atherly AG

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous explanations of why bacterial genes for certain "optional" traits tend to occur on plasmids rather than chromosomes are based on an outdated misunderstanding of natural selection. They also fail to explain why certain characters that are ubiquitous in some bacterial species tend to occur on plasmids. This pap...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Eberhard WG

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is an attractive host for heterologous gene expression. However, expression systems for industrially viable large-scale fermentations are scarce. Several inducible expression vectors for S. pombe have been reported, with the strong thiamine-repressible nmt1+ promoter or deri...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Hennig S,Hornauer N,Rödel G,Ostermann K

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dictyostelium mucoroides plasmids Dmp1 and Dmp2 are naturally occurring compatible members of the Dictyostelium Ddp1 plasmid family found in the same wild isolate strain. The nucleotide sequences of Dmp1 (5983 bp) and Dmp2 (6018 bp) are 74% identical and each carries open reading frames (ORFs) similar to the G1 and G5...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Kiyosawa H,Hughes JE,Welker DL

更新日期：1994-03-01 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：:Bacillus mycoides, a member of the Bacillus cereus group of bacteria, can be easily distinguished from close species because of colony shape, made by filaments of cells, resembling fungal hyphae, curving clock- or counterclockwise depending on the strain. Two plasmids, one from a strain curving to the right (pDx14.2),...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Di Franco C,Santini T,Pisaneschi G,Beccari E

更新日期：2005-11-01 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 effects of the single-strand origins (SSOs) of plasmid pMV158 on (i) the conversion of its single-stranded (ss) replication intermediates to double-stranded (ds) plasmid DNA and (ii) its maintenance were analyzed. The rolling-circle plasmid pMV158, which replicates via ssDNA intermediates, contains two single-stra...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Meijer WJ,van der Lelie D,Venema G,Bron S

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tn4555 is a 12.1-kb Bacteroides antibiotic resistance transposon representative of a novel class of transmissible genetic elements that can be transferred by resident conjugative tetracycline resistance transposons (Tc(r)-elements) but are not capable of self-transfer. Previously it was shown that Tn4555 transposes by...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Tribble GD,Parker AC,Smith CJ

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A transient expression system has been developed to compare the relative efficiency of expression of various vaccinia virus DNA sequences containing transcriptional regulatory elements. A plasmid vector was constructed containing both the Escherichia coli galactokinase gene (galK) and the guanine phosphoribosyltransfe...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Shepard B,Panicali D,Huang C

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the complete nucleotide sequence of a mer operon located on a 60-kb conjugative plasmid pKLH2 from an environmental bacterium, Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, isolated from a mercury mine. The pKLH2 mer operon has essentially the same gene organization as that of Tn21 and Tn501 from clinical bacteria. The pKLH...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Kholodii GY,Gorlenko Z,Lomovskaya OL,Mindlin SZ,Yurieva OV,Nikiforov VG

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brevibacterium linens RBL strain cryptic plasmid pRBL1 (8.0 kb) is described. A region involved in pRBL1 autonomous replication in Corynebacterium glutamicum was identified by insertion and deletion mapping and partially sequenced. This region encodes for a hypothetical 310-amino acid (aa) protein closely related to t...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Ankri S,Bouvier I,Reyes O,Predali F,Leblon G

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the mutagenesis of specific, virulence-associated genes of Legionella pneumophila as the eventual goal, methods for gene transfer to these bacteria were developed. Following the observations of others that conjugative, broad-host-range plasmids could be transferred from Escherichia coli to L. pneumophila at low f...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Engleberg NC,Cianciotto N,Smith J,Eisenstein BI

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA sequence polymorphism was determined for the microcin V gene cluster encoded on the microcin V plasmids of 12 natural isolates of Escherichia coli. These microcin V gene clusters are similar in DNA sequence, with only 10 of the 683 bp polymorphic. Further, the levels and patterns of microcin V gene cluster polymor...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Pinou T,Riley MA

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and reliable method for the determination of plasmid copy numbers by direct fluorescence densitometry of ethidium bromide-stained electrophoretic gels was developed. In developing the method, the following parameters were evaluated and controlled: plasmid DNA trapping in the linear chromosomal DNA, staining-d...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Projan SJ,Carleton S,Novick RP

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An RP4-oriT shuttle vector pJIR1457 originally developed for Clostridium perfringens was successfully transferred by conjugation from Escherichia coli to Clostridium botulinum type A strains and to a nontoxigenic C. botulinum type A-transposon Tn916 mutant strain lacking the entire toxin gene cluster. The light chain ...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Bradshaw M,Goodnough MC,Johnson EA

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is now known that conjugative pili are determined by representative plasmids for all incompatibility groups in Escherichia coli K-12. They fall into three basic morphological groups, which are described: thin flexible, thick flexible, and rigid filaments or rods. The main thrust of this study, however, has been the...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Bradley DE

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid RK2 codes for two species of the replication initiator protein TrfA (33 and 44 kDa). Both polypeptides are strongly associated with membrane fractions of Escherichia coli host cells (W. Firshein and P. Kim, Mol. Microbiol. 23, 1-10, 1997). We investigated the role of a 12-amino-acid hydrophobic region (HR) in ...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Kim PD,Rosche TM,Firshein W

更新日期：2000-05-01 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：:We have cloned and characterized an insertion sequence from Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. cremoris strain DB1165. This element, designated IS1165, is 1553 bp, has imperfect inverted repeat ends, contains an open reading frame of 1236 bp, and is not related to any previously described insertion sequence. The copy nu...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Johansen E,Kibenich A

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasmid pMSP3535 is a popular vector for nisin-inducible expression of heterologous genes in lactic acid bacteria. However, the maximum protein expression level achievable with pMSP3535 is relatively low. In an effort to increase expression we modified pMSP3535 to create a high expression variant termed pMSP3535H2...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Kim JH,Mills DA

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：:Functional analysis of cloned genes often makes use of complementation after introducing these genes into cells of a mutant strain. Problems with this self-cloning step in the cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans R2 have been encountered, which were mainly due to recombinational instability of gene and vector after trans...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Kuhlemeier CJ,Hardon EM,van Arkel GA,van de Vate C

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of a smallest cryptic plasmid pRK10 of Serratia marcescens ACE2 was determined. When compared to the all other plasmids reported so far from S. marcescens in sizes of over 70kb, pRK10 is only 4241bp long with 53% G+C content and has five coding sequences representing a coding percentage of 65.4...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Syed Ibrahim K,Bakkiyaraj D,James R,Ganesh Babu T,Karutha Pandian ST

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of cloning vectors with conditional, temperature-sensitive replication that are selectable with ampicillin, chloramphenicol, and kanamycin has been constructed. These vectors are derivatives of a pSC101 mutant that can replicate only at low temperatures. The cloning vectors carry a number of unique restrictio...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Phillips GJ

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A circular map of the IncHI plasmid R27 corresponding to a genome size of 182 kb was established using the restriction endonucleases ApaI, XbaI, and PstI. The map was derived from the results obtained by hybridizing individual ApaI and XbaI fragments to blotted digests of the plasmid, as well as from complete and part...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Taylor DE,Brose EC

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variant of the cryptic plasmid of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, 4.4 kb in size, was isolated and characterized at the molecular level. This variant harbored a 156-bp insertion which was located between coordinates 3134 and 3135 within the putative cppB gene using the 4.2-kb cryptic plasmid, pJD1, as a reference. The insert...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Roy RN,Bigelow N,Dillon JA

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural and functional properties of mercury resistance determinants cloned from a series of independently isolated conjugative plasmids were compared with those of the prototype HgR determinants from Tn501 and plasmid R100 (containing Tn21). Restriction endonuclease mapping classified the HgR determinants into...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Jobling MG,Peters SE,Ritchie DA

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of a study identifying plasmids in Campylobacter, we isolated and sequenced two novel cryptic plasmids from an agricultural isolate of Campylobacter coli. The larger of the two plasmids, p3384, is 3316 bp in length and has a G+C content of 31.18%. A typical origin of replication consisting of five iterons was ...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Jesse TW,Pittenger-Alley LG,Englen MD

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00