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Transposon-Directed Mutagenesis and Chromosome Mobilization in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus EBF65/65

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

K. J. Towner
K. J. Towner
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology and PHLS Laboratory, University Hospital, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH

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RP4::Mu was used to insert Tn3171 into the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus EBF65/65 chromosome. Insertions occurred at a frequency of approximately 10−7 per recipient cell. Auxotrophic mutations resulted from 28% of the Tn3171 insertions examined, with a possible ‘hot-spot’ for insertion in a gene for arginine biosynthesis. The frequency of subsequent precise excision of Tn3171 from the chromosome was less than 10−10. When attempts were made using RP4 derivatives to mobilize the chromosome from a strain containing an arg::Tn3171 insertion, it was found that the enhanced transfer frequency of the adjacent region of the chromosome was dependent on the original Tn3171 insertion, but was independent of the presence of Tn3171 on the mobilizing plasmid.

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Short Paper
Information
Genetics Research , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , February 1983 , pp. 97 - 102
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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