Author:
Ike Y,Hashimoto H,Mitsuhashi S
Abstract
Copy number mutants Rms201ts15 and Rms201ts16 were isolated at 30 degrees C from a temperature-sensitive replication mutant (Rms201ts14) of the conjugative plasmid Rms201. The numbers of plasmids per chromosome of ML1410(Rms201ts14), ML1410(Rms201ts15), and ML1410(Rms201ts16) grown at 30 degrees C were 2.2, 7.4, and 20, respectively. The synthesis of covalently closed circular plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid stopped in Rms201ts14, Rms201ts15, and Rms201ts16 immediately after a "shift-up" in temperature (42 degrees C). At 42 degrees C, antibiotic-sensitive derivatives appeared after a certain lag time: the lag times of ML1410(Rms201ts14), ML1410(Rms201ts15), and ML1410(Rms201ts16) were 2.5, 5, and 6.8 generations, respectively. After these times, plasmid-positive cells in the populations decreased at a rate of about 50% per generation in all of the mutants. From these results we conclude that plasmid segregation (partition) of Rms201 occurs by regular segregation (partition).
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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