Transposition of R factor genes to bacteriophage lambda.

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作者:

DE BergJ DaviesB AlletJD Rochaix

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Transpositions of segments of R factors (antibiotic resistance plasmids) to bacteriophage λ have been selected and characterized. Cells of Escherichia coli harboring R factors that determine kanamycin resistance were infected with phage λ , and λ kan transducing lines were obtained. Each of the three examined is unusual when compared to λ transducing phages containing E. coli chromosomal genes: the kan insertions (a) occur at several sites, each well removed from the integration region POP′, (b) are not associated with deletion of λ phage DNA, and (c) are separable from the λ genome during transduction or during lytic growth. Two insertions from the same R factor contain 1.5 kilobase sequences repeated in inverted order. The properties of the λ kan phages suggest that R factors contain systems capable of mediating genetic exchange in the absence of extensive DNA homology. It is suggested that such systems of exchange may have played important roles in R factor evolution.

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DOI:

10.1073/pnas.72.9.3628

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570

年份:

1975

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