Large Plasmids from Soil Bacteria Enriched on Halogenated Alkanoic Acids

AUTOR(ES)

Hardman, David J.

RESUMO

Four Pseudomonas species and two Alcaligenes species were isolated from soil with a capacity to grow on halogenated alkanoic acids. They were shown to contain one of five large plasmids. The plasmids had molecular weights ranging from 98,800 to 190,000. They were associated with the ability to utilize the halogenated substrates 2-monochloropropionic acid and 2-monochloroacetic acid and with resistance towards one or more of the heavy metals mercury, selenium, and tellurium. The largest plasmid, pUU204, was shown to be unstable in continuous-flow culture when the organism was supplied with succinate as the sole carbon source. The dehalogenase gene associated with pUU204 appeared to be readily transferred to an incP group plasmid, R68-45.

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