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. 1984 Oct;160(1):245–250. doi: 10.1128/jb.160.1.245-250.1984

Second replicon in ColV2-K94 mediates the stable coexistence of two incompatible plasmids.

P C Weber, G Mitra, S Palchaudhuri
PMCID: PMC214708  PMID: 6090416

Abstract

The colicin-producing plasmid pWS12, a Tn903 derivative of ColV2-K94, was found to be incompatible with the IncFI plasmids KLF1 and R386. It was compatible with the IncFII plasmids R538 and R100. Three overlapping mini-ColV derivatives, pWS15, pWS16 and pWS17, were obtained by restriction digestion of pWS12. Unlike pWS12, pWS16 exhibited incompatibility with both IncFI and IncFII plasmids, whereas the pWS15 and pWS17 plasmids expressed IncFII incompatibility but not the IncFI incompatibility of their parental ColV plasmid. We show that, although pWS12 has an IncFII replicon, Rep1, it does not normally express IncFII incompatibility because a second replicon, Rep2 (homologous to the secondary replicon of F), functions during the stable coexistence of the plasmid with IncFII plasmids. When Rep2 is deleted (as in the mini-ColV plasmids) or made nonfunctional (as in a PolA mutant strain), ColV then behaves as an IncFII plasmid.

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