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. 2019 Jun 20;9:8915. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-45429-z

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Demonstration of a circularization-dependent promoter activity. (a) Different insertions of an aphA-3 gene together with a promoterless cat gene close to LJ or RJ of ICEHptfs4, or with an additional T-HP1395 terminator (T) upstream of the cat gene, were generated in strain P12, resulting in the indicated arrangements after selection for kanamycin or erythromycin resistance (see Materials and Methods for details). Subsequently, kanamycin- or erythromycin-resistant transformants were plated on chloramphenicol-containing media. A (+) sign indicates growth of colonies on chloramphenicol plates, and a (−) sign indicates no growth. (b) Genomic DNA preparations of chloramphenicol-selected colonies or non-selected (Kan/Erm) bacteria of mutant (7), or of P12 wild-type, were analysed by PCR with primer pair WS362/WS363 (refer to Fig. 3 for primer binding sites).