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. 1989 May;55(5):1286–1288. doi: 10.1128/aem.55.5.1286-1288.1989

Characteristics and restriction analysis of the 4-chlorobiphenyl catabolic plasmid, pSS50.

S W Hooper 1, T C Dockendorff 1, G S Sayler 1
PMCID: PMC184292  PMID: 2757383

Abstract

The plasmid pSS50 is a 53-kilobase self-transmissible plasmid of broad host range that has been isolated from several Alcaligenes and Acinetobacter species. This plasmid has previously been shown to mediate the mineralization of 4-chlorobiphenyl to carbon dioxide and water. Physical characterization of this plasmid by restriction analysis indicates that most hexanucleotide cleavage sites are clustered in a 5-kilobase region, leaving large regions without restriction sites. The paucity of restriction sites is not due to DNA methylation.

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