BACTERIOPHAGE-P1 SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION .2. RECOMBINATION BETWEEN LOXP AND THE BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME
BACTERIOPHAGE-P1 SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION .2. RECOMBINATION BETWEEN LOXP AND THE BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-2836(81)90376-4
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
HOESS, R
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作者:
STERNBERG, N;HAMILTON, D;HOESS, R
The events associated with recombination between loxP, a site in phage P1 EcoRI fragment 7, and loxB, a site in the bacterial [Escherichia coli] chromosome, are described. When fragment 7 is in a phage .lambda. vector, the product of loxP .times. loxB recombination is the integration of the .lambda.-P1:7(loxP) DNA as prophage in the bacterial chromosome and the production of 2 new hybrid sites, loxR and loxL, flanking the prophage. Lambda phages containing loxL, loxR and loxB sites were isolated and used to measure recombination frequencies between all 4 lox sites in paired phage crosses. loxP and loxL sites were much better substrates for recombination than are loxR and loxB sites. Both partners in a recombination reaction must contain either loxP or loxL sites for recombination to be efficient. These results can explain all of these findings relating to the recombination between .lambda.-P1:7 DNA and the bacterial chromosome. In particular, integration of that DNA into loxB is low because loxP .times. loxB recombination is inefficient, and excision of the resulting prophage DNA is low because loxL .times. loxR recombination is inefficient. In contrast, integration of .lambda.-P1:7 DNA into a chromosome already containing a i-P1:7 prophage at loxB is relatively high and is always accompanied by the excision and subsequent loss of the original prophage DNA. This process was called integration by prophage displacement, and it can be accounted for by postulating that 2 lox recombination events are involved (loxP .times. loxR and loxL), both of which are more efficient than is loxP .times. loxB recombination. Analysis of the physical structure of the various .lambda.lox phages indicates that loxP-containing DNA can integrate into loxB in both possible orientations, and that the loxP .times. loxB crossover point is located within a 100 base-pair region of P1 BamHI fragment 9, a subfragment of EcoRI fragment 7. The loxB site was mapped to a region of the E. coli chromosome between tolC (66 min) and dnaG (67 min).