Elsevier

Plasmid

Volume 2, Issue 4, October 1979, Pages 605-616
Plasmid

Regular article
Post-transformational rearrangement of an in vitro reconstructed group-A streptococcal erythromycin resistance plasmid

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Abstract

Cleavage of the group-A streptococcal macrolide, lincosamide, and streptogramin B (MLS) resistance plasmid pSM19035 yields 2 fragments [13 and 4 megadaltons (MD)] with EcoRI, and 15 fragments with HindIII, 12 of which are 6 pairs of identical fragments derived from the inverted repeats that comprise about 80% of the pSM19035 genome. The large EcoRI fragment was isolated, ligated, and used to transform the Challis strain of Streptococcus sanguis to erythromycin resistance. Plasmids (pDB101, pDB102, and pDB103) isolated from three different transformants had lower molecular masses than the original large EcoRI fragment. HindIII digestion of these molecules and subsequent analysis of fragment radioactivity distributions indicated the loss of plasmid segments of various sizes. The deletions, all of which occurred in the palindrome, did not affect the level and the inducible nature of pSM19035-determined antibiotic resistance. Only pDB101 retained the unique EcoRI cleavage site. The results of this analysis allowed the construction of an EcoRI and HindIII cleavage-site map of pSM19035 and promise to simplify future studies of genetic functions specified by streptococcal MLS resistance plasmids.

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Present address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Okla. 73190.

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