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. 1984 Nov;160(2):564–568. doi: 10.1128/jb.160.2.564-568.1984

Physical and functional map of an Agrobacterium tumefaciens tumor-inducing plasmid that confers a narrow host range.

V Knauf, M Yanofsky, A Montoya, E Nester
PMCID: PMC214771  PMID: 6094476

Abstract

Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ag162 induces crown gall disease on an unusually narrow range of host plants. The 231-kilobase Ti plasmid which has been shown to determine host range, was subcloned into the vector pVCK102. By comparing overlaps of cloned insets, maps were constructed for the restriction endonucleases SalI, XhoI, EcoRI, and KpnI. Plasmid incompatibility, octopine catabolism, and at least six virulence genes were localized. Plasmid incompatibility between pTiAg162 and the wide host range plasmid pTiA6 consists of two components: mutual incompatibility and the apparent ability of pTiA6 to block RK2 replication if the pTiAg162 incompatibility locus is linked to the vector pVK102. The octopine catabolism locus maps within the 30 kilobases of DNA separating the two T-DNA regions of pTiAg162. Complementation of avirulent vir mutants of pTiA6 with clones of pTiAg162 DNA did not confer the host range of pTiAg162 but rather restored the wide host range of pTiA6. One potentially important difference between pTiA6 and pTiAg162 is that pTiAg162 T-DNA regions are widely separated.

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