abstract：:The conjugative transfer system of Yersinia enterocolitica 29930 present on the cryptic plasmid p29930 comprises a mating pore formation system (Mpf) related to that of the IncX plasmid R6K and a DNA transfer and replication system (Dtr) with close relationship to the mob region of the mobilizable plasmid CloDF13. Two...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Kraushaar B,Appel B,Lanka E,Strauch E

更新日期：2010-09-01 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：: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：:Fusobacterium nucleatum is a Gram-negative anaerobic rod found in dental plaque biofilms, and is an opportunistic pathogen implicated in periodontitis as well as a wide range of systemic abscesses and infections. Genomic analyses of F. nucleatum indicate considerable genetic diversity and a prominent role for horizont...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Claypool BM,Yoder SC,Citron DM,Finegold SM,Goldstein EJ,Haake SK

更新日期：2010-01-01 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 new insertion variant of IS231 family, designated ISBth4, was identified from Bacillus thuringiensis MEX312. ISBth4 is 2046bp in length and is delimited by two 17bp inverted repeats (IR) with one mismatch, flanked by two perfect 11bp direct repeats (DR). ISBth4 contains two open reading frames (ORFs), ORF1 and ORF2,...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Wang J,Chaudhuri RR,Ellar DJ

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonviral gene delivery has gained a lot of interest as a promising approach for gene therapy. Despite intensive studies and much progress the outcome of nonviral vectors has remained significantly weaker than that of viral vectors. A weak transfection efficiency of nonviral gene transfection is still limiting their in...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Soininen P,Hanzlíková M,Paukkunen M,Lecklin A,Männistö PT,Raasmaja A

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：: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：:To facilitate the study of the structure-function relationship of human hemoglobin (Hb A), we have developed a new hemoglobin expression vector, pGEX6P-alpha-[SD]-beta. This vector allows the co-expression of alpha-Hb as a fusion protein with Glutathione S-Transferase (GST-alpha-Hb) and beta-Hb with an additional meth...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Domingues E,Brillet T,Vasseur C,Agier V,Marden MC,Baudin-Creuza V

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycopeptide resistant Enterococcus faecium (GREF) persists on Norwegian poultry farms despite the ban on the growth promoter avoparcin. The biological basis for long-term persistence of avoparcin resistance is not fully understood. This study presents the complete DNA sequence of the E. faecium R-plasmid pVEF3 and fu...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Sletvold H,Johnsen PJ,Hamre I,Simonsen GS,Sundsfjord A,Nielsen KM

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：: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：: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：:The Lactococcus lactis group II intron (Ll.ltrB) retrohomes into the ltrB gene at high efficiency. To date, the critical DNA bases recognized in vivo by the Ll.ltrB ribonucleoprotein (RNP) have been exclusively elucidated in Escherichia coli. However, recent evidence indicates host-dependant differences in Ll.ltrB mob...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Sela DA,Rawsthorne H,Mills DA

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus coagulans is a sporogenic lactic acid bacterium that ferments glucose and xylose, major components of plant biomass, a potential feedstock for cellulosic ethanol. The temperature and pH for optimum rate of growth of B. coagulans (50 to 55 degrees C, pH 5.0) are very similar to that of commercially developed f...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Rhee MS,Kim JW,Qian Y,Ingram LO,Shanmugam KT

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：:We report the mobilization by cointegration of the gonococcal 5.2 kb beta-lactamase plasmid pSJ5.2 in an Escherichia coli background. Transfer of pSJ5.2 was measured by filter mating assays with five different conjugative plasmids from Enterobacteriaceae and the gonococcal 41 kb tet(M). Plasmid pSJ5.2 was mobilized to...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Scharbaai-Vázquez R,Candelas T,Torres-Bauzá LJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently the plasmid RK2 replication initiation protein, TrfA, has been shown to bind to the beta subunit of DNA Polymerase III (DnaN) via a short pentapeptide with the consensus QL[S/D]LF. A second consensus peptide, the hexapeptide QLxLxL, has also been demonstrated to mediate binding to DnaN. Here we describe the r...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Dalrymple BP,Kongsuwan K,Wijffels G

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A small cryptic plasmid designated pHW15 was isolated from Rahnella genomospecies 2 WMR15 and its complete nucleotide sequence was determined. The plasmid contained 3002 bp with a G+C content of 47.4%. The origin of replication was identified by deletion analysis as a region of about 600 bp. This region had an identit...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Rozhon WM,Petutschnig EK,Jonak C

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：:Sphingomonas sp. A1 (strain A1) is capable of directly incorporating macromolecules (e.g., alginate) through the specialized import system--"super-channel." Here, we report the complete DNA sequence and genetic organization of plasmid pA1 from strain A1. Nucleotide sequence analysis revealed that pA1 comprises 46,557 ...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Harada KM,Aso Y,Hashimoto W,Mikami B,Murata K

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：:Bacterial chromosomes segregate via a partition apparatus that employs a score of specialized proteins. The SMC complexes play a crucial role in the chromosome partitioning process by organizing bacterial chromosomes through their ATP-dependent chromatin-compacting activity. Recent progress in the composition of these...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Strunnikov AV

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:Escherichia coli pcnB gene was discovered as a regulator of ColE1 plasmid copy number about 20 years ago. Further studies indicated that this gene codes for poly(A) polymerase I (PAP I). However, although importance of RNA polyadenylation has been demonstrated and biochemical properties of PAP I have been studied exte...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Jasiecki J,Wegrzyn G

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：: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：:Most Vibrio fischeri strains isolated from the Euprymna scolopes light organ carry plasmids, often including both a large (>40kb) plasmid, and one or more small (<12kb) plasmids. The large plasmids share homology with pES100, which is the lone plasmid in V. fischeri type strain ES114. pES100 appears to encode a conjug...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Dunn AK,Martin MO,Stabb EV

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated a small multicopy cryptic plasmid, pNHK101, from Thermus sp. TK10 for use as a replicon of a Thermus expression vector. The nucleotide sequence of pNHK101 revealed that this plasmid was 1564bp long, with a total G+C content of 66.8%, which was in agreement with that of Thermus genomic DNA. The sequence did...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Kobayashi H,Kuwae A,Maseda H,Nakamura A,Hoshino T

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

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：: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：:Horizontal transfer of genes encoding phenol degradation (pheBA) in the environment has been previously described. Complete or partial phe-operon was redetected in plasmids of several indigenous Pseudomonas strains isolated from the river water. The sequences of up- and downstream regions of the acquired phe-DNA in ei...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Peters M,Tomikas A,Nurk A

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of two novel plasmids isolated from the extreme thermophilic anaerobic bacterium Anaerocellum thermophilum DSM6725 (A. thermophilum), growing optimally at 70 degrees C, has been determined. pBAS2 was found to be a 3653 bp plasmid with a GC content of 43%, and the sequence revealed 10 open readi...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Clausen A,Mikkelsen MJ,Schröder I,Ahring BK

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperate bacteriophage MAV1 is found in certain highly virulent strains of Mycoplasma arthritidis. Integration sites, portions of the right and left prophage ends, and flanking DNA from eight prophages in seven M. arthritidis strains were characterized in this study. attb and attp sites conformed for the most part to...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Washburn LR,Miller EJ,Mukherjee S,Dannenbring D

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed shuttle vectors for integration of genes via double homologous recombination into three ectopic sites on the chromosome of Bacillus subtilis. The sites of integration are the pyrD, gltA, and sacA genes located at 139 degrees, 172 degrees, and 333 degrees, respectively, on the chromosome. Integratio...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Middleton R,Hofmeister A

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete nucleotide sequence of the cryptic plasmid pCC1 from Corynebacterium callunae (4109 bp) was determined. DNA sequence analysis revealed five open reading frames longer than 200 bp. One of the deduced polypeptides showed homology with the Rep proteins encoded by plasmids of the pIJ101/pJV1 family of plasmid...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Venkova-Canova T,Pátek M,Nesvera J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some strains of the Enterobacteriaceae Serratia entomophila and Serratia proteamaculans cause amber disease in the grass grub, Costelytra zealandica (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), an important pasture pest in New Zealand. The genes responsible for this disease reside on a large, 155-kb plasmid designated amber disease-as...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Hurst MR,O'Callaghan M,Glare TR

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of a 3955-bp Helicobacter pylori plasmid, pHP51 was determined, and two open reading frames, ORF1 and ORF2, were identified. The deduced amino acid sequence of ORF1 was highly conserved (87-89%) among plasmid replication initiation proteins, RepBs. The function of ORF2 was not assigned because ...

journal_title：Plasmid

authors： Song JY,Choi SH,Byun EY,Lee SG,Park YH,Park SG,Lee SK,Kim KM,Park JU,Kang HL,Baik SC,Lee WK,Cho MJ,Youn HS,Ko GH,Bae DW,Rhee KH

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00