Isolation of Auxotrophic Mutants of Methylophilus methylotrophus by Modified-Marker Exchange

AUTOR(ES)

Bohanon, Michael J.

RESUMO

A method for stabilizing a transposon (Tn5) has been developed which allows the isolation of stable auxotrophic mutants of Methylophilus methylotrophus ASI. Insertion of Tn5 into a cloned M. methylotrophus ASI DNA fragment encoding anthranilate synthase followed by transfer of the vector with the modified trpE gene to M. methylotrophus ASI resulted in unstable auxotrophs among the recombinants. Deletion of IS50R, which encodes transposase production from Tn5, stabilized the transposon after mobilization to M. methylotrophus ASI. When trpE genes with the modified Tn5 inserts were mobilized into M. methylotrophus ASI, stable, kanamycin-resistant tryptophan auxotrophs were obtained by double-crossover homologous recombination with the chromosome.

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