An improved colony hybridization method with significantly increased sensitivity for detection of single genes.

abstract：:A preliminary screening study of six Moraxella catarrhalis isolates from primary school children in the Netherlands identified a small 3.5 kb plasmid (pEMCJH03), containing four open reading frames, which encoded three mobilizing and one replicase protein. Insertion of a kanamycin containing transposon (yielding pEMCJ...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Hays JP,Eadie K,Verduin CM,Verbrugh H,van Belkum A

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stable maintenance of certain plasmids in bacterial populations has contributed significantly to the current worldwide antibiotic resistance (AbR) emergency. IncX plasmids, long underestimated in this regard, have achieved recent notoriety for their roles in transmission of resistance to carbapenem and colistin, t...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Bustamante P,Iredell JR

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapidly advancing field of plant synthetic biology requires transforming plants with multiple genes. This has sparked a growing interest in flexible plant transformation vectors, which can be used for multi-gene transformations. We have developed a novel binary vector series, named the PC-GW series (GenBank: KP826...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Dalal J,Yalamanchili R,La Hovary C,Ji M,Rodriguez-Welsh M,Aslett D,Ganapathy S,Grunden A,Sederoff H,Qu R

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review provides a historical perspective of the major findings that contributed to our current understanding of plasmid rolling-circle (RC) replication. Rolling-circle-replicating (RCR) plasmids were discovered approximately 20 years ago. The first of the RCR plasmids to be identified were native to Gram-positive...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Khan SA

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Almost 200 scientists from America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa participated in the Plasmid Biology 2004 meeting, which was organized between 15th and 21st September 2004 in Kanoni (Corfu island), Greece. Various aspects of biology of plasmids and other mobile genetic elements were discussed during the meeting...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Wegrzyn G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report here the molecular characterization of pFNL10, a 3990-bp cryptic plasmid of Francisella novicida-like F6168. The plasmid was maintained in F. novicida Utah 112 and F. tularensis LVS strains. We sequenced the entire plasmid and found six open reading frames (ORFs)-ORF1, ORF2, ORF3, ORF4, ORF5, and ORFm. ORF3,...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Pomerantsev AP,Golovliov IR,Ohara Y,Mokrievich AN,Obuchi M,Norqvist A,Kuoppa K,Pavlov VM

更新日期：2001-11-01 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：:Mud (mini-Mu) transposons are defective phage Mu genomes that conserve the Mu ends. The transduction of Mud transposons is strictly dependent on Mu complementation, inefficient, and affected by modifications in the Mud internal sequences. The transduction of Mud transposons depends on transposition, which appears to b...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Reyes O,Beyou A,Mignotte-Vieux C,Richaud F

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence analysis of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa insertion sequence element IS222 revealed it to be 1234 bp in size with 23 bp imperfect terminal inverted repeats. Insertion caused a 5-bp duplication of the insertion site. Two ORFs were identified, one of which, ORFA, could encode a basic (pI 10.5) polypeptide with a m...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Kropinski AM,Farinha MA,Jansons I

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of low copy number plasmid vectors for mammalian gene expression has been constructed. These vectors are derived from the previously described bacterial low copy number expression vectors, pWSK29 and pWKS30, which are present at six to eight copies per cell. The new plasmids also have the following useful proper...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Fontaine SL,Firth SD,Lockhart PJ,Paynter JA,Mercer JF

更新日期：1998-01-01 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

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：:A number of plasmid vectors were constructed for high-level gene expression in the dimorphic gram-negative bacterium Caulobacter crescentus. These vectors incorporate the transcription and translation initiation regions of the C. crescentus CB15A rsaA gene, which codes for the abundantly synthesized protein comprising...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Bingle WH,Smit J

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here the construction of Gateway-compatible vectors, pBGP1-DEST and pPICZα-DEST, for rapid and convenient preparation of expression plasmids for production of secretory proteins in Pichia pastoris. Both vectors direct the synthesis of fusion proteins consisting of the N-terminal signal and pro-sequences of...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Sasagawa T,Matsui M,Kobayashi Y,Otagiri M,Moriya S,Sakamoto Y,Ito Y,Lee CC,Kitamoto K,Arioka M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unequal crossing-over is involved in genetic duplication and deletion in such diverse genetic systems as Drosophila, bacteria, and animal viruses. It is proposed to be involved in the form of unequal sister chromatid exchange in gene amplification in cultured animal cells and during carcinogenesis. Studies of the proc...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Clevenger W,Reeves R,Pall ML

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The repABC replicons have an unusual structure, since they carry genes coding for partitioning (repA, repB) and replication (repC) proteins, which are organized in an operon. So far, the presence of these compact bi-functional modules has been reported only in the megaplasmids of the Rhizobiaceae and within the plasmi...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Bartosik D,Baj J,Piechucka E,Waker E,Wlodarczyk M

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A putative insertion sequence (IS1473) has been cloned and sequenced. The 1087-bp element was found between the moaA and the ndhA genes in the upstream region of the nicotine dehydrogenase (ndh) operon in the 160-kb pAO1 plasmid of Arthrobacter nicotinovorans. It is flanked by an imperfect repeat of 33 bp and carries ...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Menéndez C,Igloi GL,Brandsch R

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cloning of the finO region from the antibiotic-resistance plasmid R6-5 is reported. On the basis of DNA deletion analysis and Tn5 transposon insertional mutagenesis of finO+ chimeric plasmids, finO has been located within the coordinates 94.0-94.85 on the R6-5 map. A 32,000-Da polypeptide (32K), which is encoded w...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Cheah KC,Ray A,Skurray R

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homology was previously detected between the DNA restriction fragments containing Rhizobium meliloti nodulation genes and the 90-MDa plasmid, p90, of Azospirillum brasilense Sp7. Two DNA loci from Sp7 genome that complement mutations in the exopolysaccharide synthesis genes, exoB and exoC, of R. meliloti were also sho...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Onyeocha I,Vieille C,Zimmer W,Baca BE,Flores M,Palacios R,Elmerich C

更新日期：1990-05-01 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：: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：:Even though Vibrio cholerae is a well-known human pathogen, it is also a normal member of aquatic habitats. Within this environment it often forms biofilms on the chitin-containing exoskeleton of crustaceans and their molts. Chitin not only serves as nutrient source but also induces a developmental program called natu...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： De Souza Silva O,Blokesch M

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the 50-kb R-plasmid pTP10 from the clinical isolate Corynebacterium xerosis M82B revealed that the erythromycin resistance gene, ermCX, is located on a 4524-bp composite transposable element, Tn5432. The ends of Tn5432 are identical, direct repeats of an insertion sequence, designated IS1249, encoding a pu...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Tauch A,Kassing F,Kalinowski J,Pühler A

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha (HIF-1alpha) in heart allografts is an important mechanism in response to ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury which represents the single major non-immunologic factor implicated in pathogenesis of chronic graft dysfunction (CGD). Adenoviral mediated overexpression of HIF...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Wei L,Lu J,Feng L,Li S,Shan J,Li Y

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：: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：:Two B/O plasmids were sequenced. The kanamycin resistance plasmid R805a was found in a Salmonella Typhi strain from a 1972 typhoid fever outbreak in Mexico City. pCERC6, which confers resistance to ampicillin, streptomycin and sulphamethoxazole, was found in a commensal E. coli isolated from a healthy adult in Sydney ...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Moran RA,Richardson IA,Hall RM

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：:Mutations that increase the copy number of the pSC101 replicon have been used for construction of new cloning vectors. Replacement of glutamate at position 93 in RepA yields plasmids that replicate at medium (27 copies/cell) and high (approximately 240 copies/cell) copy numbers. Based on the crystal structure of RepE,...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Peterson J,Phillips GJ

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene(s) for chromosome-mediated beta-lactamase production of Proteus vulgaris GN7919 was cloned into a unique EcoRI site of pACYC184 as an insert of a 14.2-kb fragment, which was further digested into two fragments with EcoRI, 4.9 and 9.3 kb. The restriction enzyme digestion pattern of the recombinant plasmid, des...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Maejima T,Ohya Y,Mitsuhashi S,Inoue M

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00