Electronic Resource
Springer
Molecular genetics and genomics
262 (2000), S. 1070-1080
ISSN:
1617-4623
Keywords:
Key wordsAzotobacter vinelandii
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Replication origin
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DnaA binding sites
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GATC sequences
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Biology
Notes:
Abstract The putative replication origin of Azotobacter vinelandii was cloned as an autonomously replicating fragment after ligation to an antibiotic resistance cartridge. The resulting plasmids could be isolated and labelled by Southern hybridisation with the antibiotic resistance cartridge as probe and also visualised by electron microscopy. These plasmids integrated into the chromosome after a few generations, even in the recA mutant of A. vinelandii. The integrated copy of the plasmid was re-isolated from the chromosome and the DNA and its subfragments were cloned in the plasmid vector pBR322. A 200-bp DNA fragment was sufficient to allow the replication of pBR322 in an Escherichia coli polA strain. Electron microscopic analysis of this plasmid showed that replication initiated mostly within the A. vinelandii DNA fragment. The nucleotide sequence of the putative replication origin and its flanking regions was determined. In the sequence of the 200-bp fragment many of the distinctive features found in other replication origins are lacking. A greater variation from the consensus DnaA binding sequence was observed in A. vinelandii. Direct sequencing of the relevant genomic fragment was also carried after amplifying it from A. vinelandii chromosomal DNA by PCR. This confirmed that no rearrangements had taken place while the cloned fragment was resident in E. coli. It was shown by hybridisation that the 200-bp chromosomal origin fragment of A. vinelandii was present in three other field strains of Azotobacter spp.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/PL00008650
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