The poison-antidote stability system of the broad-host-range Thiobacillus ferrooxidans plasmid pTF-FC2

Molecular Microbiology
A S Smith, D E Rawlings

Abstract

In plasmid pTF-FC2, three small open reading frames (ORFs) are situated between the repB (primase) gene and the repA (helicase) gene of its IncQ-type replicon. Disruption of each of the three ORFs followed by tests for plasmid stability and host cell growth indicated that the ORFs encoded a poison-antidote plasmid stability system. The three genes were named pasA, pasB and pasC (plasmid addiction system), in which PasA is the antidote, PasB the toxin and PasC a protein that appears to enhance the ability of the antidote to neutralize the toxin. Disruption of the pasA gene resulted in two different spontaneous deletions, which inactivated the stability system but did not alter the host range or plasmid copy number. This indicated that the three small ORFs were not involved in plasmid replication. When placed behind a tac promoter, induction of pasB was found to be highly lethal to host cells, which suggests that the Pas system acts by killing plasmid-free host cells rather than by retarding the growth of plasmid-free segregants, as occurs in the ParD system of R1. In spite of this, the presence of the Pas poison-antidote system resulted in a relatively modest threefold stabilization of the pTF-FC2 host replicon and a similar inc...Continue Reading

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