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. 1993 Sep;175(17):5701–5705. doi: 10.1128/jb.175.17.5701-5705.1993

Plasmids from two morphologically distinct cyanobacterial strains share a novel replication origin.

M R Schaefer 1, G G Chiang 1, J G Cobley 1, A R Grossman 1
PMCID: PMC206630  PMID: 8366056

Abstract

A 2.9-kbp replication origin from a plasmid endogenous to the filamentous cyanobacterium Fremyella diplosiphon UTEX 481 was genetically characterized and sequenced. Deletion analysis of the 2.9-kbp DNA fragment delimited the minimum region necessary for replication in F. diplosiphon Fd33 to approximately 2.5 kbp. DNA sequence analysis revealed that the F. diplosiphon plasmid replication origin is structurally very similar to and shares significant identity with the 1.75-kbp replication origin reported for plasmid pDU1, isolated from the morphologically distinct cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. strain PCC 7524. Each cyanobacterial plasmid replication origin includes a large open reading frame that predicts a conserved protein of unknown function; the predicted proteins of the replication origins are of similar sizes and 30% identical in amino acid sequence. Each cyanobacterial plasmid replication origin also possesses a region of dyad symmetry approximately 300 bp upstream of the conserved open reading frame.

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