LAMBDA-PHAGEMIDS AND THEIR TRANSDUCING PROPERTIES
LAMBDA-PHAGEMIDS AND THEIR TRANSDUCING PROPERTIES
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DOI:
10.1016/0378-1119(84)90084-2
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
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影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
BAYEV, AA
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作者:
MELNIKOV, AA;TCHERNOV, AP;BAYEV, AA
Two recombinant phage .lambda. DNA, .lambda.gt::pMB9 and .lambda.NM::pBR322, containing, respectively, the pMB9 and pBR322 replicon were constructed and characterized. Both constructs (phagemid DNA) transfect Escherichia coli cells, producing mature infectious phage progenies. Drug-resistant colonies of transductants can be selected upon infection with these phages (phagemid particles) that maintain phagemid DNA in the cell in the form of covalently closed circular plasmids. The efficiency of transduction for nonlysogenic E. coli strains with .lambda.gt::pMB9 phage producing .lambda. repressor cIts ranges from 10-7 to 10-2 transductant colonies/input phage, depending on the temperature and strain used, while .lambda.NM::pBR322 phage carrying imm21 transduces with a frequency of up to 1. This means that each .lambda.NM::pBR322 phagemid particle is capable of establishing itself in the cell as a nonlethal plasmid, permitting formation of a resistant bacterial colony. The maximal level of transduction with .lambda.gt::pMB9 was obtained when E. coli cells lysogenic for .lambda. were used. Thus, the efficiency of transduction appears to be determined by the turn-on of the phage repressor in the transductant. All .lambda.gt::pMB9-containing transductants under certain conditions harbor precisely excised pMB9; excision of pBR322 from .lambda.NM::pBR322 was not observed.