Transfer of plasmids pBR322 and pBR325 in wastewater from laboratory strains of Escherichia coli to bacteria indigenous to the waste disposal system.

AUTOR(ES)

Gealt, M A

RESUMO

Laboratory strains of Escherichia coli containing plasmid pBR325 (or pBR322) were coincubated with a mobilizer strain of E. coli (containing the conjugative plasmid R100-1) and a recipient strain of bacteria. Bacterial strains isolated from raw wastewater or a plasmid-free E. coli laboratory strain served as recipients. Transfer of the pBR plasmid into the recipient strain occurred during a 25-h coincubation in either L broth or sterilized wastewater; transfer frequencies were several orders of magnitude lower in wastewater. After the coincubation, recipients exhibited both plasmid-encoded phenotypic characteristics and an altered plasmid profile, as shown by agarose gel electrophoresis of purified plasmid DNA.

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