Genetic transfer by conjugation in the thermophilic green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum.
AUTOR(ES)
Wahlund, T M
RESUMO
The broad-host-range IncQ group plasmids pDSK519 and pGSS33 were transferred by conjugation from Escherichia coli into the thermophilic green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum. C. tepidum exconjugants expressed the kanamycin and ampicillin-chloramphenicol resistances encoded by pDSK519 and pGSS33, respectively. Ampicillin resistance was a particularly good marker for selection in C. tepidum. Both pDSK519 and pGSS33 were stably maintained in C. tepidum at temperatures below 42 degrees C and could be transferred between C. tepidum and E. coli without modifications. Conjugation frequencies ranged from 10(-1) to 10(-4) exconjugants per donor cell, and frequencies of 10(-2) to 10(-3) were consistently obtained when ampicillin resistance was used as a selectable marker. Methods for growth of C. tepidum on agar, isolation of plating strains and antibiotic-resistant mutants of wild-type C. tepidum cells, and optimum conditions for conjugation were also investigated.
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