INCOMPATIBILITY AND MOLECULAR RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SMALL BACTERIOCINOGENIC PLASMIDS OF STAPHYLOCOCCUS-AUREUS

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作者
ARAUJO, SA [1 ]
BASTOS, MCF [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV FED RIO DE JANEIRO,CCS,INST MICROBIOL,DEPT MICROBIOL GERAL,BR-21944970 RIO JANEIRO,BRAZIL
关键词
BACTERIOCINOGENIC PLASMIDS; INCOMPATIBILITY RELATIONSHIP; MOLECULAR RELATIONSHIP; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;
D O I
10.1007/BF00286367
中图分类号
Q81 [生物工程学(生物技术)]; Q93 [微生物学];
学科分类号
071005 ; 0836 ; 090102 ; 100705 ;
摘要
The sequence relations between small bacteriocinogenic plasmids (pRJ6, pRJ9, pRJ10 and pRJ11) of Staphylococcus aureus were investigated by comparing restriction maps and by hybridization. Plasmids pRJ10 and pRJ11 showed identical restriction maps, similar to that of pRJ9. The restriction map of pRJ6 differed from those of pRJ9 and pRJ10/pRJ11. Both groups of plasmids were shown to share a region of homology of at least 2.6 kb. The incompatibility relationships between them were also investigated by using plasmid derivatives tagged with transposon Tn551. Plasmids pRJ6 and pRJ9 proved to belong to different incompatibility groups.
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