Polyethylene glycol-induced fusion of heat-inactivated and living protoplasts of Bacillus megaterium.
AUTOR(ES)
Fodor, K
RESUMO
Protoplasts of Bacillus megaterium, incubated at 50 degrees C for 120 min, lost the ability to revert to bacillary form. Such heat-inactivated protoplasts, however, produced recombinants when fused by polyethylene glycol treatment with normal protoplasts. Although this differential inactivation effect is not yet fully reproducible, reciprocal inactivations of the parental protoplasts in genetic crosses have clearly shown that for protoplast fusion (i) either of the parents may serve as the viable recipient for markers coming from the heated parental protoplasts, and (ii) either of the parents may be rendered nonviable and yet, when fused with a viable partner, contribute to formation of a recombinant. Heat inactivation seems to provide a way to counterselect when few markers are available and one of the parents is prototrophic.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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