ORGANIZATION OF THE REPLICATION CONTROL REGION OF PLASMID COLIB-P9

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作者
HAMA, C [1 ]
TAKIZAWA, T [1 ]
MORIWAKI, H [1 ]
URASAKI, Y [1 ]
MIZOBUCHI, K [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV TOKYO,FAC SCI,DEPT BIOPHYS & BIOCHEM,TOKYO 113,JAPAN
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10.1128/jb.172.4.1983-1991.1990
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
We identified a 1,845-base-pair sequence that contains essential information for the autonomous replication and regulation of the 93-kilobase-pair IncIα group ColIb-P9 plasmid. Biochemical and gentic analyses revealed that this sequence specifies at least two structural genes, designated repZ and inc. The repZ gene encodes a protein with a molecular weight of 39,000, which probably functions as an initiator for the ColIb-P9 replicon. The inc gene that phenotypically governs the incompatibility encodes an RNA with a size of about 70 bases. This small RNA acts in trans to repress the expression of repZ, thereby functioning to maintain a constant copy number of the ColIb-P9 replicon in host cells.
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页码:1983 / 1991
页数:9
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