Identification and cloning of the conjugative transfer region of Staphylococcus aureus plasmid pGO1.
AUTOR(ES)
Thomas, W D
RESUMO
The conjugative transfer (tra) genes of a 52-kilobase (kb) staphylococcal plasmid, pGO1, were localized by deletion analysis and transposon insertional inactivation. All transfer-defective (Tra-) deletions and Tn551 or Tn917 transposon insertions occurred within a 14.5-kb BglII fragment. Deletions and insertions outside this fragment all left the plasmid transfer proficient (Tra+). The tra region was found to be flanked by directly repeated DNA sequences, approximately 900 base pairs in length, at either end. Clones containing the 14.5-kb BglII fragment (pGO200) and subclones from this fragment were constructed in Escherichia coli on shuttle plasmids and introduced into Staphylococcus aureus protoplasts. Protoplasts could not be transformed with pGO200E (pGO200 on the staphylococcal replicon, pE194) or subclones containing DNA at one end of the tra fragment unless pGO1 or specific cloned tra DNA fragments were present in the recipient cell. However, once stabilized by sequences present on a second replicon, each tra fragment could be successfully introduced alone into other plasmid-free S. aureus recipients by conjugative mobilization or transduction. In this manner, two clones containing overlapping fragments comprising the entire 14.5-kb BglII fragment were shown to complement each other. The low-frequency transfer resulted in transconjugants containing one clone intact, deletions of that clone, and recombinants of the two clones. The resulting recombinant plasmid (pGO220), which regenerated the tra region intact on a single replicon, transferred at frequencies comparable to those of pGO1. Thus, all the genes necessary and sufficient for conjugative transfer of pGO1 are contained within a 14.5-kb region of DNA.
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