ISOLATION OF EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACIDS FROM EXTREMELY THERMOPHILIC BACTERIA
ISOLATION OF EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACIDS FROM EXTREMELY THERMOPHILIC BACTERIA
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DOI:
10.1099/00221287-104-2-193
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
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SAKAGUCHI, K
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HISHINUMA, F;TANAKA, T;SAKAGUCHI, K
Strains (8) of thermophilic bacteria were examined for the presence of covalently closed circular DNA molecules by CsCl-ethidium bromide density gradient centrifugation. Four of the 8 strains tested, Thermus flavus BS1, AT61, AT62 and T. thermophilus HB8 carried covalently closed circular DNA molecules. T. flavus BS1 harbored 2 species of plasmids with MW of 6.1 .times. 106 and 17.0 .times. 106 as determined by EM. T. thermophilus HB8, T. flavus AT61 and T. flavus AT62 carried plasmids with MW 6.2 .times. 106, 6.6 .times. 106 and 6.6 .times. 106, respectively. Plasmids from T. flavus AT61 and AT62 were indistinguishable in their electrophoretic patterns in agarose or acrylamide gel after digestion with various [HindIII, HpaI, HindII, BamNI and SamR] restriction endonucleases. This is the 1st evidence for the presence of plasmids in extremely thermophilic bacteria, though their functions are unknown. [These plasmids may serve as vectors for the construction of recombinant DNA molecules].