Use of firefly luciferase gene for plasmid copy number determination.

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：: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：:pSAM2 is an 11-kb plasmid integrated in the Streptomyces ambofaciens ATCC23877 and ATCC15154 genomes and found additionally as a free replicon in an uv derivative. After transfer into S. ambofaciens DSM40697 (devoid of pSAM2) or into Streptomyces lividans, specific integration of pSAM2 occurred very efficiently. A 58-...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Boccard F,Smokvina T,Pernodet JL,Friedmann A,Guérineau M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are the genetic material often involved in the interspecies and intraspecies genetic transduction in bacteria. However, little is known about MGEs in the Anginosus group of streptococci (AGS), one of the streptococcal groups found in the oral cavity of humans. We looked for the presence ...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Tabata A,Deutsch D,Otsuka S,Verratti K,Tomoyasu T,Nagamune H,Fischetti VA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the prevalence of Arthrobacter in the environment little is known about their plasmids, or the capacity of Arthrobacter plasmids to mediate horizontal gene transfer. In this study, we compared eight plasmids from five Arthrobacter strains in order to identify putative core maintenance genes for replication, se...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Jerke K,Nakatsu CH,Beasley F,Konopka A

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two improved Deinococcus radiodurans-Escherichia coli shuttle vectors have been constructed. pI3 is a 16-kb plasmid that confers chloramphenicol resistance in D. radiodurans (CmR, cat) and ampicillin resistance in E. coli (ApR) and contains a multiple cloning site that does not interrupt sequences necessary for replic...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Masters CI,Minton KW

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell clone (cl.2) having an atypical transformed morphology was isolated from a murine C127 cell culture experimentally infected with a bovine papillomavirus type 1 (BPV-1) virion preparation. cl.2 cells exhibited minimal transformed characteristics and contained multiple copies of a BPV-1 plasmid with a molecular s...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Burnett S,Moreno-Lopez J,Pettersson U

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A plasmid shuttle vector for Escherichia coli and mycobacteria was constructed from an E. coli plasmid containing the ColE1 origin, a 2.6-kb PstI fragment from bacteriophage D29 that grows in numerous mycobacterial species, and the kanamycin resistance gene either of Tn903 or of Tn5. The resultant plasmid is 7.63 kb a...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： David M,Lubinsky-Mink S,Ben-Zvi A,Ulitzur S,Kuhn J,Suissa M

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CoIV plasmids are large virulence plasmids of the incompatibility group IncFI. We have obtained the genetic maps of two of the most studied CoIV plasmids, pCoIV-B188 and pCoIV-K30, according to restriction enzyme sites and landmark phenotypic characteristics such as colicin V, the aerobactin iron uptake system, th...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Waters VL,Perez-Casal JF,Crosa JH

更新日期：1989-11-01 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：: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 conjugative shuttle transposon Tn1545 from Streptococcus pneumoniae confers resistance to kanamycin (aphA-3), erythromycin (ermAM), and tetracycline (tetM). The 25.3-kb element is self-transferable to various gram-positive bacterial genera where it transposes. Tn1545 is also capable of transposition, but not of co...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Caillaud F,Carlier C,Courvalin P

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:This work describes a novel plasmid pSP187 (5550 bp) carrying the small multidrug resistance determinant smr encoding resistance to quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs). pSP187 was identified in a Staphylococcus pasteuri isolate recovered from bulk milk in a dairy cattle herd in Norway. Sequence analysis rev...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Bjorland J,Bratlie MS,Steinum T

更新日期：2007-03-01 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

abstract：:Plasmid deletion formation was compared in wild-type, recE4, and addB72 strains of Bacillus subtilis. Deletion frequencies in plasmid pGP1, as monitored with a penP-lacZ fusion, were low in recE4 and high in addB72, in comparison to the wild-type strain. In the wild-type and recE4 strains, deletions between directly r...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Peijnenburg AC,Breed PV,Bron S,Venema G

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

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：:Pinene is a monoterpene with wide industrial applications, especially as a promising high energy-density jet fuel. Traditional production of pinene on an industrial scale is material consumptive and has a low yield. As an alternative, microbial organisms have been engineered though advanced synthetic biological techni...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Bao SH,Zhang DY,Meng E

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：:A plasmid vector for cloning in Bacillus sphaericus 1593 was constructed in B. subtilis from two parent plasmids, pBC16 and pBD64. When characterized, the 3.9-MDa chimeric plasmid pNN101 was found to consist of the MspI fragment containing the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene from pBD64 inserted into an Ms...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Norton NB,Orzech KA,Burke WF Jr

更新日期：1985-05-01 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 new class of binary vectors has been constructed, containing the origin of replication of the W-type plasmid Sa. These vectors are designed to express foreign genes in plants under control of the TR gene 2' promoter or the promoter of a light-inducible ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase small subunit gene of Arab...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Alliotte T,Zhu LH,Van Montagu M,Inzé D

更新日期：1988-05-01 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：:pCAMBIA vectors have become popular for their easy handling, stability and the existence of a range of selection and reporter genes. However, these vectors have yet to integrate the Gateway® cloning system, which has enabled site-specific recombination without the need for restriction enzymes and ligases. This paper s...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Leclercq J,Szabolcs T,Martin F,Montoro P

更新日期：2015-09-01 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：:Transformation of Escherichia coli with Dictyostelium discoideum genomic DNA containing integrated shuttle vectors in multicopy, tandemly duplicated format resulted in the establishment of the linear plasmid molecules as circular monomeric replicons. The transformation efficiencies were comparable to those obtained wi...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Barth C,Wilczynska Z,Pontes L,Fraser DJ,Fisher PR

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the construction of a series of shuttle vectors for Staphylococcus aureus. In order to determine transcriptional regulation by essential regulators, we constructed promoterless luxABCDE reporter system using a TetR-regulated antisense RNA expression vector, pJYJ909, which is composed of S. aureus plasmid p...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Yan M,Yu C,Yang J,Ji Y

更新日期：2009-05-01 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：: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：:pSM19035 is a low-copy-number theta-replicating plasmid, which belongs to the Inc18 family. Plasmids of this family, which show a modular organization, are functional in evolutionarily diverse bacterial species of the Firmicutes Phylum. This review summarizes our understanding, accumulated during the last 20 years, on...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Lioy VS,Pratto F,de la Hoz AB,Ayora S,Alonso JC

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mobile plasmid-encoded elements are DNA segments that are transferred for horizontal gene transfer and that confer adaptive proprieties, as well as virulence and antibiotic and heavy metal resistance to bacteria. The conjugative plasmid pUM505, isolated from a clinical strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, possesses a put...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Hernández-Ramírez KC,Reyes-Gallegos RI,Chávez-Jacobo VM,Díaz-Magaña A,Meza-Carmen V,Ramírez-Díaz MI

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00