Abstract
A vector, pUK318, was constructed to allow the expression of foreign genes in the marine photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sp. NKPB 0021. This strain has been cured of its two endogenous plasmids. pUK318 consists of a 2.3-kb PstI-BamHI restriction fragment, containing a marine Rhodobacter plasmid replication region, cloned into pUC18. This fragment was derived from plasmid pRD31, a 3.1-kb endogenous plasmid purified from the marine strain Rhodobacter sp. NKPB 043402. A kanamycin resistance gene from Tn903 was cloned into the PstI restriction site to provide antibiotic selection. pUK318 was transferred to Rhodobacter sp. NKPB 0021 by transformation, and efficiencies of 7.2 x 10(-5) were obtained. Furthermore, pUK318 was stably maintained when transformants were grown either heterotrophically or photosynthetically in the absence of antibiotics. pUK318 was used to express the Escherichia coli chloramphenicol acetyl transferase (CAT) gene in Rb. NKPB 0021. Transformants expressed a maximum CAT activity of 1.12 mmol/min/g dry cells. In addition, the DNA region essential for pUK318 replication in Rb. NKPB 0021 was localized to a 1.36-kb HincII-PstI fragment. This is the first report of a plasmid vector containing a marine Rhodobac...Continue Reading
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