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Instability of Rts1 (drug-resistant factor) replicon: stabilization by DNA fragments derived from Rts1
H Yonemitsu1, T Fujihashi, H Higuchi
1Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, USA.
Abstract:
Rts1 is a large naturally occurring plasmid which has a kanamycin resistance gene and exhibits various temperature-sensitive phenotypes. A smaller derivative of plasmid, pOK, contains the Rts1 replicon and the kanamycin resistance gene of Rts1. This plasmid, pOK, is much more unstable than Rts1 at 42.5 degrees C. A DNA fragment, G3, 1590 nucleotides long from Rts1 DNA, stabilized pOK completely at 42.5 degrees C but only in the cis configuration. G3 did not change the copy number of pOK. The pOK derivative containing G3 was destabilized by the presence of a compatible plasmid containing G3. G3 has four inverted repeats, two 14-base direct repeats, and three ORFs. Smaller fragment of G3 also had a stabilization effect and these studies showed that the ORF does not play any role in stabilization.
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