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The genomes of four keto-acid-producing Gluconobacter oxydans strains (ATCC9937, IFO3293, IFO12258 and DSM2343) were analysed by pulse-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). PFGE of undigested DNA allowed the detection of plasmids in the following strains: ATCC9937 (3 plasmids; 8, 27, 31 kb), IFO3293 (9 kb), DSM2343 (21 kb). The three plasmids in ATCC9937 showed no homology to each other or to plasmids in the other strains. Seventeen restriction enzymes were tested for use in PFGE analysis of the G. oxydans strains and XbaI was chosen for restriction fragment analysis of the genomes. Fairly good resolution of restriction fragments at all size ranges was achieved by using three different pulse–time programs. The genome sizes of the four strains were estimated to be between 2240 kb and 3787 kb. The XbaI restriction patterns of the four strains showed no similarities to each other. Ten random cosmid clones of ATCC9937 were used as hybridization probes against the four strains, but, with the exception of one clone, hybridization signals were only observed with ATCC9937 itself. These data show that the four strains are not closely related.
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Verma, V., Qazi, P., Cullum, J. et al. Genetic heterogeneity among keto-acid-producing strains of Gluconobacter oxydans. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 13, 289–294 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018530923443
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