Summary
A collection of about 2500 clones containing hybrid plasmids representative of nearly the entire genome of B. subtilis 168 was established in E. coli SK1592 by using the poly(dA)·poly(dT) joining method with randomly sheared DNA fragments and plasmid pHV33, a bifunctional vector which can replicate in both E. coli and B. subtilis. Detection of cloned recombinant DNA molecules was based on the insertional inactivation of the Tc gene occurring at the unique BamHI cleavage site present in the vector plasmid.
Thirty individual clones of the collection were shown to hybridize specifically with a B. subtilis rRNA probe. CCC-recombinant plasmids extracted from E. coli were pooled in lots of 100 and used to transform auxotrophic mutants of B. subtilis 168. Complementation of these auxotrophic mutations was observed for several markers such as thr, leuA, hisA, glyB and purB. In several cases, markers carried by the recombinant plasmids were lost from the plasmid and integrated into the chromosomal DNA. Loss of genetic markers from the hybrid plasmids did not occur when a rec - recipient strain of B. subtilis was used.
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Abbreviations
- ApR :
-
resistance to ampicillin
- TcR :
-
resistance to tetracycline
- CmR :
-
resistance to chloramphenicol
- CCC:
-
covalently closed circular duplex
- Mdal:
-
magadalton
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Rapoport, G., Klier, A., Billault, A. et al. Construction of a colony bank of E. coli containing hybrid plasmids representative of the Bacillus subtilis 168 genome. Molec. Gen. Genet. 176, 239–245 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00273218
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