Heterozygosity and instability of amplified chromosomal insertions in the radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans.
AUTOR(ES)
Masters, C I
RESUMO
Natural transformation, duplication insertion, and plasmid transformation in Deinococcus radiodurans, a bacterium that contains 4 to 10 chromosomes per cell, were studied. Duplication insertions were often heterozygous, with some chromosomes containing highly amplified insertions and others containing no insertions. Large amplified regions were apparently deleted by intrachromosomal recombination, generating as by-products extrachromosomal circles consisting of multiple tandem repeats of the amplified sequence. The circles were of heterogenous integer sizes, containing as many as 10 or more amplification units. Two strains that are defective in natural transformation and sensitive to DNA-damaging agents were further characterized. Both strains were defective in duplication insertion. While on strain was normal for plasmid transformation, the other was totally defective in this regard, suggesting that plasmid transfer in D. radiodurans may require recombinational functions.
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