Specialized transduction of the ilvD-thyB-ilvA region mediated by Bacillus subtilis bacteriophage SP beta.
AUTOR(ES)
Fink, P S
RESUMO
Specialized transducing SP beta particles were found that carried the Bacillus subtilis genes lying to the left of the prophage attachment site. Three classes of transducing particles were differentiated, depending upon whether they carried ilvA only, thyB and ilvA, or ilvD, thyB, and ilvA. Lysates prepared by the induction of strains that carried both a transducing phage and a plaque-forming phage contained the two particles in a ratio of about 1:3,000. When the transducing particles were used to transduce a phage-sensitive auxotrophic strain to prototrophy, some of the transductants carried only the transducing phage genomes which, by themselves, were defective. One putative nondefective transducing phage (for ilvA only) is also described. SP beta can mediate specialized transduction even in the absence of the major (recE) bacterial recombination system.
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