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Conjugal transfer of recombinant plasmids into gellan gum‐producing and non‐producing variants of Pseudomonas elodea ATCC 31461
Author(s) -
Fialho A.M.,
Monteiro G.A.,
SáCorreia I.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
letters in applied microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.698
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1472-765X
pISSN - 0266-8254
DOI - 10.1111/j.1472-765x.1991.tb00511.x
Subject(s) - biology
The conjugal transfer of recombinant plasmids into a gellan gum‐producing, rifampicin‐resistant strain of Pseudomonas elodea and into one of its non‐producing variants, was studied in order to facilitate the cloning of gellan genes. The mobilization frequency of recombinant plasmids derived from pKT240, and of cosmid pJRD215 from Escherichia coli HB101 ( hsdM ), into the mucoid strain was below the values for the non‐mucoid variant and decreased exponentially with plasmid size. Reducing the mating time on solid surfaces led to higher mobilization frequencies. Under optimal conditions, a gene bank (40–50 kb) constructed in the cosmid pJRD215 was efficiently mobilized into Gel ‐ mutants during complementation experiments.