GENE REPLACEMENT THROUGH HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION IN MYCOBACTERIUM-INTRACELLULARE

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作者
MARKLUND, BI
SPEERT, DP
STOKES, RW
机构
[1] BRITISH COLUMBIA CHILDRENS HOSP,DIV INFECT DIS & IMMUNOL,VANCOUVER,BC V6H 3V4,CANADA
[2] CANADIAN BACTERIAL DIS NETWORK,VANCOUVER,BC,CANADA
[3] UNIV BRITISH COLUMBIA,DEPT PAEDIAT,VANCOUVER,BC,CANADA
[4] UNIV BRITISH COLUMBIA,DEPT MICROBIOL & IMMUNOL,VANCOUVER,BC,CANADA
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D O I
10.1128/jb.177.21.6100-6105.1995
中图分类号
Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
摘要
Microbacterium intracellulare is a slow-growing pathogenic mycobacterium closely related to Mycobacterium avium. In contrast to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis BCG, M intracellulare has received little attention as a model species for studies of mycobacterial molecular biology and genetics, This study shows that M. intracellulare 1403 (ATCC 35761) fan be transformed by electroporation with high frequencies (up to 10(6) transformants per mu g of DNA), using plasmids pYT937 and pMH94 as replicative and integrative vectors, respectively, We also describe an experimental system that we used to study DNA recombination in M. intracellulare, First, an integrative plasmid was introduced into M. intracellulare 1403, A nonreplicative, nonintegrative plasmid having homology with the integrated plasmid was then introduced, and the resultant recombinants were analyzed to distinguish between events of homologous and illegitimate recombination, No illegitimate recombination occurred; in all recombinants, a single crossover between homologous regions of the two plasmids was noted, During subsequent growth of a recombinant clone, a spontaneous deletion occurred that resulted in a gene replacement on the chromosome of M. intracellulare 1403, The ability to construct site-specific mutations in M. intracellulare will provide novel insights into the biology of slow-growing mycobacteria.
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页码:6100 / 6105
页数:6
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