Reduction of conjugal transfer efficiency by three restriction activities of Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1998-2005

  Elhai, Jeff ^a,c   Vepritskiy, Alexey ^a,d   Muro Pastor, Alicia M ^b   Flores, Enrique ^b   Wolk, C Peter ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^d RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONJUGATION; DNA TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION SITE;

EID: 0030941679     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.6.1998-2005.1997     Document Type: Article

References (79)

1. Arber, W., and S. Linn. 1969. DNA modification and restriction. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 38:467-500.
2. Bagdasarian, M., R. Lurz, B. Rückert, F. C. H. Franklin, M. M. Bagdasarian, J. Frey, and K. N. Timmis. 1981. Specific-purpose plasmid cloning vectors. II. Broad host range, high copy number, RSF1010-derived vectors, and a host-vector system for gene cloning in Pseudomonas. Gene 16:237-247.
3. Balbás, P., X. Soberón, E. Merino, M. Zurita, H. Lomeli, F. Valle, N. Flores, and F. Bolivar. 1986. Plasmid vector pBR322 and its special-purpose derivatives - a review. Gene 50:3-40.
4. Baldwin, T. O., T. Berends, T. A. Bunch, T. F. Holzman, S. K. Rausch, L. Shamansky, M. L. Treat, and M. M. Ziegler. 1984. Cloning of the lucifcrase structural genes from Vibrio harveyi and expression of bioluminescence in Escherichia coli. Biochemistry 23:3663-3667.
5. Barth, P. T., L. Tobin, and G. S. Sharpe. 1981. Development of broad host-range plasmid vectors, p. 439-448. In S. B. Levy, R. C. Clowes, and E. L. Koenig (ed.), Molecular biology, pathogenicity, and ecology of bacterial plasmids. Plenum Press, New York, N.Y.
6. Benzinger, R. 1968. Restriction of infectious bacteriophage fd DNA's and an assay for in vitro host-controlled restriction and modification. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 59:1294-1299.
7. Bertani, G., and J. J. Weigle. 1953. Host-controlled variation in bacterial viruses. J. Bacteriol. 65:113-121.
8. Binotto, J., P. R. MacLachlan, and K. E. Sanderson. 1991. Electrotransfermation in Salmonella typhimurium LT2. Can. J. Microbiol. 37:474-477.
9. - mutation in Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 implicates a secondary metabolite in the regulation of heterocyst spacing. J. Bacteriol. 176:2282-2292.
10. Boyer, H. W. 1971. DNA restriction and modification mechanisms in bacteria. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 25:153-176.
11. Boyer, H. W., and D. Roulland-Dussoix. 1969. A complementation analysis of the restriction and modification of DNA in Escherichia coli. J. Mol. Biol. 41:459-472.
12. Bradford, M. M. 1976. A rapid and sensitive method for the quantitation of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding. Anal. Biochem. 72:248-254.
13. Braun, A. C., and H. N. Wood. 1962. On the activation of certain essential biosynthetic systems in cells of Vinca rosea L. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 48:1776-1782.
14. Briggs, R. E., F. M. Tatum, T. A. Casey, and G. H. Frank. 1994. Characterization of a restriction endonuclease, PhaI, from Pasteurella haemolytica serotype A1 and protection of heterologous DNA by a cloned PhaI methyltransferase gene. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 60:2006-2010.
15. Chang, A. C. Y., and S. N. Cohen. 1978. Construction and characterization of amplifiable multicopy DNA cloning vehicles derived from the P15A cryptic miniplasmid. J. Bacteriol. 134:1141-1156.
16. Chilley, P. M., and B. M. Wilkins. 1995. Distribution of the ardA family of antirestriction genes on conjugative plasmids. Microbiology 141:2157-2164.
17. de Backer, O., P. Chomez, and E. Deplaen. 1994. Positive selection of recombinant plasmids based on the EcoK restriction activity of Escherichia coli K-12. Gene 150:197-198.
18. De Feyter, R., and D. W. Gabriel. 1991. Use of cloned DNA methylase genes to increase the frequency of transfer of foreign genes into Xanthomonas campestris pv. malvacearum. J. Bacteriol. 173:6421-6427.
19. Duyvesteyn, M. G. C., J. Korsuize, A. de Waard, A. Vonshak, and C. P. Wolk. 1983. Sequence-specific endonucleases in strains of Anabaena and Nostoc. Arch. Microbiol. 134:276-281.
20. Eden, P. A., and R. P. Blakemore. 1991. Electroporation and conjugal plasmid transfer to members of the genus Aquaspirillum. Arch. Microbiol. 155:449-152.
21. Elhai, J. 1993. Strong and regulated promoters in the cyanobacterium Anabaena PCC 7120. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 114:179-184.
22. Elhai, J., Y. Cai, and C. P. Wolk. 1994. Conduction of pEC22, a plasmid coding for MR. EcoT22I, mediated by a resident Tn3-like transposon, Tn5396. J. Bacteriol. 176:5059-5067.
23. Elhai, J., and C. P. Wolk. 1988. Conjugal transfer of DNA to cyanobacteria. Methods Enzymol. 167:747-754.
24. Elhai, J., and C. P. Wolk. 1988. A versatile class of positive-selection vectors based on the nonviability of palindrome-containing plasmids that allows cloning into long polylinkers. Gene 68:119-138.
25. Elhai, J., and C. P. Wolk. 1990. Developmental regulation and spatial pattern of expression of the structural genes for nitrogenase in the cyanobacterium Anabaena. EMBO J. 9:3379-3388.
26. Finnegan, J., and D. Sherratt. 1982. Plasmid ColE1 conjugal mobility: the nature of bom, a region required in cis for transfer. Mol. Gen. Genet. 185:344-351.
27. Glickman, B. W., and M. Radman. 1980. Escherichia coli mutator mutants deficient in methylation-instructed DNA mismatch correction. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 77:1063-1067.
28. Glover, S. W., and C. Colson. 1965. The breakdown of the restriction mechanism in zygotes of Escherichia coli. Genet. Res. 6:153-155.
29. Golden, J. W., and D. R. Wiest. 1988. Genome rearrangement and nitrogen fixation in Anabaena blocked by inactivation of xisA gene. Science 242:1421-1423.
30. Guiney, D. G. 1984. Promiscuous transfer of drug resistance in Gram-negative bacteria. J. Infect. Dis. 149:320-329.
31. Hanahan, D. 1984. Studies on transformation of Escherichia coli with plasmids. J. Mol. Biol. 166:557-580.
32. Hiom, K. J., and S. G. Sedgwick. 1992. Alleviation of EcoK DNA restriction in Escherichia coli and involvement of umuDC activity. Mol. Gen. Genet. 231:265-275.
33. Kawamura, M., M. Sakakibara, T. Watanabe, K. Kita, N. Hiraoka, A. Obayashi, M. Takagi, and K. Yano. 1986. A new restriction endonuclease from Spirulina platensis. Nucleic Acids Res. 14:1985-1989.
34. + mutant. Gene 136:271-275.
35. Kühnlein, U., and W. Arber. 1972. Host specificity of DNA produced by Escherichia coli. XV. The role of nucleotide methylation in in vitro B-specific modification. J. Mol. Biol. 63:9-19.
36. Langella, P., and A. Chopin. 1989. Effect of restriction-modification systems on transfer of foreign DNA into Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 59:301-306.
37. Lanka, E., and B. M. Wilkins. 1995. DNA processing reactions in bacterial conjugation. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 64:141-169.
38. Linn, S., and W. Arber. 1968. Host specificity of DNA produced by Escherichia coli. X. In vitro restriction of phage fd replicative form. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 59:1300-1306.
39. Marsh, J. L., M. Erfle, and E. J. Wykes. 1984. The pIC plasmid and phage vectors with versatile cloning sites for recombinant selection by insertional inactivation. Gene 32:481-485.
40. Matsushima, P., and R. H. Baltz. 1994. Transformation of Saccharopolyspora spinosa protoplasts with plasmid DNA modified in vitro to avoid host restriction. Microbiology 140:139-143.
41. Matsushima, P., M. C. Broughton, J. R. Turner, and R. H. Baltz. 1994. Conjugal transfer of cosmid DNA from Escherichia coli to Saccharopolyspora spinosa: effects of chromosomal insertions on macrolide A83543 production. Gene 146:39-45.
42. Mermelstein, L. D., and E. T. Papoutsakis. 1993. In vivo methylation in Escherichia coli by the Bacillus subtilis phage φ3T I methyltransferase to protect plasmids from restriction upon transformation of Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 59:1077-1081.
43. Mermelstein, L. D., N. E. Welker, G. N. Bennett, and E. T. Papoutsakis. 1992. Expression of cloned homologous fermentative genes in Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824. Bio/Technology 10:190-195.
44. Miller, L., and S. Kaplan. 1978. Plasmid transfer and expression in Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 187:229-234.
45. Muro-Pastor, A. M., E. Flores, A. Herrero, and C. P. Wolk. 1992. Identification, genetic analysis and characterization of a sugar-nonspecific nuclease from the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120. Mol. Microbiol. 6:3021-3030.
46. Murray, K., S. G. Hughes, J. S. Brown, and S. A. Bruce. 1976. Isolation and characterization of two sequence-specific endonucleases from Anabaena variabilis. Biochem. J. 159:317-322.
47. Murray, N. E., P. Manduca de Ritis, and L. A. Foster. 1973. DNA targets for the Escherichia coli K restriction system analysed genetically in recombinants between phages Phi80 and lambda. Mol. Gen. Genet. 120:261-281.
48. Murray, N. E., and K. Murray. 1974. Manipulation of restriction targets in phage lambda to form receptor chromosomes for DNA fragments. Nature 251:476-481.
49. New England BioLabs. 1996. New England BioLabs 96/97 catalog. New England BioLabs, Beverly, Mass.
50. Paigen, K., and H. Weinfeld. 1963. Cooperative infection by host-modified lambda phage. Virology 19:565-572.
51. Prozorov, A. A., T. S. Belova, and N. N. Surikov. 1980. Transformation and transduction of Bacillus subtilis strains with the BsuR restriction-modification system by means of modified and unmodified DNA of pUB1 10 plasmid. Mol. Gen. Genet. 180:135-138.
52. Raleigh, E. A. 1992. Organization and function of the mcrBC genes of Escherichia coli K-12. Mol. Microbiol. 6:1079-1086.
53. Raleigh, E. A., N. E. Murray, H. Revel, B. Blumenthal, D. Westaway, A. D. Reith, P. W. J. Rigby, J. Elhai, and D. Hanahan. 1988. McrA and McrB restriction phenotypes of some E. coli strains and implications for gene cloning. Nucleic Acids Res. 16:1563-1575.
54. Rambach, A., and P. Tiollais. 1974. Bacteriophage lambda having EcoRI endonuclease sites only in the nonessential region of the genome. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 71:3927-3930.
55. Read, T. D., A. T. Thomas, and B. M. Wilkins. 1992. Evasion of type I and type II DNA restriction systems by IncI1 plasmid ColIb-P9 during transfer by bacterial conjugation. Mol. Microbiol. 6:1933-1941.
56. Reckmann, B., and G. Krauss. 1987. The cleavage of single-stranded DNA by the isoschizomeric restriction endonuclease HhaI and CfoI. Biochim. Biophys. Acta 908:90-96.
57. Rippka, R. 1988. Recognition and identification of cyanobacteria. Methods Enzymol. 167:28-67.
58. Rippka, R., J. Deruelles, J. B. Waterbury, M. Herdman, and R. Y. Stanier. 1979. Generic assignments, strain histories and properties of pure cultures of cyanobacteria. J. Gen. Microbiol. 111:1-61.
59. Roizes, G., P. C. Nardeux, and R. Monier. 1979. A new specific endonuclease from Anabaena variabilis. FEBS Lett. 104:39-44.
60. Rose, R. E. 1988. The nucleotide sequence of pACYC177. Nucleic Acids Res. 16:356.
61. Sambrook, J., E. F. Fritsch, and T. Maniatis. 1989. Molecular cloning: a laboratory manual, 2nd ed. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
62. Sanger, F., A. R. Coulson, G. F. Hong, D. F. Hill, and G. B. Petersen. 1982. Nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage lambda DNA. J. Mol. Biol. 162:729-773.
63. Sanger, F. S., S. Nicklen, and A. R. Coulson. 1977. DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 74:5463-5467.
64. Schäfer, A., A. Schwarzer, J. Kalinowski, and A. Pühler. 1994. Cloning and characterization of a DNA region encoding a stress-sensitive restriction system from Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13032 and analysis of its role in intergeneric conjugation with Escherichia coli, J. Bacteriol. 176:7309-7319.
65. Slutzky, A. M., P. M. Rabinovich, L. Z. Yakubov, V. V. Sineokaya, A. I. Stepanov, and V. K. Gordeyev. 1980. Direct selection of DNA inserts in plasmid gene of kanamycin-resistance. Mol. Gen. Genet. 180:487-488.
66. Stein, D. C., S. Gregoire, and A. Piekarowicz. 1988. Restriction of plasmid DNA during transformation but not conjugation in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Infect. Immun. 56:112-116.
67. Thiel, T., and H. Poo. 1989. Transformation of a filamentous cyanobacterium by electroporation. J. Bacteriol. 171:5743-5746.
68. Thomas, M. C., and C. A. Smith. 1987. Incompatibility group P plasmids: genetics, evolution, and use in genetic manipulation. Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 41:77-101.
69. Trieu-Cuot, P., C. Carlier, P. Martin, and P. Courvalin. 1987. Plasmid transfer by conjugation from Escherichia coli to Gram-positive bacteria. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 48:289-294.
70. Trieu-Cuot, P., C. Carlier, C. Poyart-Salmeron, and P. Courvalin. 1991. Shuttle vectors containing a multiple cloning site and a lacZα gene for conjugal transfer of DNA from Escherichia coli to Gram-positive bacteria. Gene 102:99-104.
71. Tsai, S. P., R. J. Hartin, and J.-I. Ryu. 1989. Transformation in restriction-deficient Salmonella typhimurium LT2. J. Gen. Microbiol. 135:2561-2567.
72. Twigg, A. J., and D. Sherratt. 1980. Trans-complementable copy-number mutants of plasmid ColE1. Nature 283:216-218.
73. Uetake, H., S. Toyama, and S. Hagiwara. 1965. On the mechanism of host-induced modification: multiplicity activation and thermolabile factor responsible for phage growth restriction. Virology 22:202-213.
74. Vieira, J., and J. Messing. 1982. The pUC plasmids, an M13mp7-derived system for insertion mutagenesis and sequencing with synthetic universal primers. Gene 19:259-268.
75. Wolk, C. P., Y. Cai, L. Cardemil, E. Flores, B. Hohn, M. Murry, G. Schmetterer, B. Schrautemeier, and R. Wilson. 1988. Isolation and complementation of mutants of Anabaena sp. strain FCC 7120 unable to grow aerobically on dinitrogen. J. Bacteriol. 170:1239-1244.
76. Wolk, C. P., Y. Cai, and J.-M. Panoff. 1991. Use of a transposon with luciferase as a reporter to identify environmentally responsive genes in a cyanobacterium. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88:5355-5359.
77. Wolk, C. P., J. Elhai, T. Kuritz, and D. Holland. 1993. Amplified expression of a transcriptional pattern formed during development of Anabaena. Mol. Microbiol. 7:441-445.
78. Wolk, C. P., A. Ernst, and J. Elhai. 1994. Heterocyst metabolism and development, p. 769-823. In D. A. Bryant (ed.), The molecular biology of cyanobacteria. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
79. Wolk, C. P., A. Vonshak, P. Kehoe, and J. Elhai. 1984. Construction of shuttle vectors capable of conjugative transfer from Escherichia coli to nitrogen-fixing filamentous cyanobacteria. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 81:1561-1565.