Wide-Host-Range Plasmids Function in the Genus Thiobacillus

AUTOR(ES)

Davidson, M. S.

RESUMO

Plasmids S-a, RP4, R388, and several RP4 derivatives (pMD101, pDT387, and pDT566) were transmissible by conjugation to Thiobacillus novellus from Escherichia coli. Genetic markers were expressed in T. novellus, with the exception of chloramphenicol resistance and ampicillin resistance. Plasmids were not transmissible by conjugation from E. coli donors to Thiobacillus intermedius, T. perometabolis, T. neapolitanus, or T. acidophilus recipients, although they could be mated into these strains from T. novellus. All Thiobacillus species tested could transfer plasmids back to E. coli, with the exception of T. acidophilus. The donor-specific bacteriophages PRR1 and PRD1 were incapable of initiating the lytic cycle in RP4-bearing strains of T. novellus. The cosmid cloning vehicle pVK100 could be mobilized from E. coli to T. novellus with the aid of the “helper” plasmid pRK2013. pVK100 is stable in T. novellus, but pRK2013 is not maintained in this species. pRK2013 was also used to mobilize another cloning vector, R300B, to T. novellus. A previously unreported cryptic plasmid of approximately 24 megadaltons was observed in T. intermedius. No native plasmids were demonstrated in the other Thiobacillus species except in T. acidophilus, which contained cryptic plasmids ranging in size from 7.6 to 56 megadaltons (molecular mass).

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