Genetic loci responsible for incompatibility on a co-integrate plasmid, R100-1

J Bacteriol. 1975 Dec;124(3):1097-100. doi: 10.1128/jb.124.3.1097-1100.1975.

Abstract

An R plasmid, R100-1, was mapped previously (Yoshikawa, 1974) by transduction from an integratively suppressed Hfr strain to a recipient with a mutation in gene dnaA. By this method various types of transductants of plasmid R100-1 that exist autonomously or in the integrated state were obtained. Seventy-one such transductants were used in the present study to map gene inc, which is responsible for incompatibility. The results obtained can be explained by either of the following: (i) R100-1 has only a single gene or gene cluster (inc) despite previous work suggesting that this plasmid is a co-integrate of two replicons; (ii) R100-1 possesses more than one inc locus located between the repA and tra loci.

MeSH terms

  • Chloramphenicol / pharmacology
  • Chromosome Mapping
  • Conjugation, Genetic*
  • Drug Resistance, Microbial*
  • Escherichia coli* / drug effects
  • Genes*
  • R Factors*
  • Streptomycin / pharmacology
  • Sulfonamides / pharmacology
  • Tetracycline / pharmacology
  • Transduction, Genetic

Substances

  • Sulfonamides
  • Chloramphenicol
  • Tetracycline
  • Streptomycin