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. 1991 Nov;57(11):3292–3300. doi: 10.1128/aem.57.11.3292-3300.1991

Shuttle plasmid vectors for Lactobacillus casei and Escherichia coli with a minus origin.

M Shimizu-Kadota 1, H Shibahara-Sone 1, H Ishiwa 1
PMCID: PMC183962  PMID: 1781687

Abstract

Recombinant plasmids which can be used as shuttle vectors between Escherichia coli and the industrially used strains of Lactobacillus casei were constructed. They have replication regions closely related to those of pUB110 and are likely to replicate by a rolling-circle mechanism via a plus-strand-specific DNA intermediate in L. casei. Both orientations of palA from the staphylococcal plasmid pC194 and those of the intergenic region from coliphage M13 are identified as active minus origins in L. casei, in contrast to the pAM alpha 1 delta 1-derived BA3 minus origin which does not function in L. casei. Stability of the plasmids increased in L. casei when one of these two active minus origins was inserted. All the DNA sequences of the constructed vectors were known.

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