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. 1980 Jan;141(1):111–120. doi: 10.1128/jb.141.1.111-120.1980

Control of Plasmid R1 Replication: Functions Involved in Replication, Copy Number Control, Incompatibility, and Switch-off of Replication

Søren Molin 1, Kurt Nordström 1
PMCID: PMC293542  PMID: 6986353

Abstract

A small derivative of plasmid R1 was used to integratively suppress a chromosomal dnaA(Ts) mutation. The strain obtained grew normally at 42°C. The integratively suppressed strain was used as recipient for various plasmid R1 derivatives. Plasmid R1 and miniplasmid derivatives of R1 could be established in the strain that carried an integrated R1 replicon, but they were rapidly lost during growth. However, plasmids also carrying ColE1 replication functions were almost completely stably inherited. The integratively suppressed strain therefore allows the establishment of bacteria diploid with respect to plasmid R1 and forms a useful and sensitive system for studies of interaction between plasmid R1 replication functions. Several of the chimeric plasmids caused inhibition of growth at high temperatures. All plasmids that inhibited growth carried one particular PstI fragment from plasmid R1 (the PstI F fragment), and in all cases the growth inhibition could be ascribed to repression of initiation of chromosome replication at 42°C, i.e., they carry a trans-acting switch-off function. Furthermore, the analogous PstI fragments from different copy mutants of plasmid R1 were analyzed similarly, and one mutant was found to lack the switch-off function. The different chimeric plasmids were also tested for their incompatibility properties. All plasmids that carried the switch-off function (and no other plasmids) also carried R1 incompatibility gene(s). Since the PstI F fragment, which is present on all these plasmids, is very small (0.35 × 106), it is suggested that the switch-off regulation of replication (by an inhibitor), incompatibility, and copy number control are governed by the same gene.

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