Affiliation:
1. Department of Pathology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, USA.
Abstract
The Mycobacterium avium plasmid pLR7 is representative of a group of small plasmids that are common in isolates from AIDS patients with disseminated M. avium infections. Determination of the functions of these and other plasmids has been hampered by the lack of methods for genetic manipulation of M. avium. In this study, the region of pLR7 capable of replication was identified and sequenced. Fragments of pLR7 were cloned into a pUC18 derivative carrying a kanamycin resistance marker and introduced into a plasmid-free M. avium strain by electroporation. The origin of replication was located on a 1.8-kb PvuII-to-SmaI fragment. An open reading frame encoding a putative Rep protein was identified. Two other open reading frames were identified in this region. A shuttle vector, pMB351, was constructed with the pLR7 origin of replication, pUC18, and the kanamycin resistance gene from Tn5. This vector was successfully transformed into M. avium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and Mycobacterium bovis.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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