Ability of IncP-9 plasmid pM3 to replicate in Escherichia coli is dependent on both rep and par functions

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 819-833

  Sevastsyanovich, Yanina R ^a   Titok, Marina A ^b   Krasowiak, Renata ^a,c   Bingle, Lewis E H ^a   Thomas, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b BELARUSIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HELICASE; PROTEIN PARB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PLASMID PM3; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REPLICON; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPLICATION ORIGIN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 22644436536     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04732.x     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. Abeles, A.L., Friedman, S.A., and Austin, S.J. (1985) Partition of miniplasmids to daughter cells. 3. The DNA sequence and functional organization of the P1 partition region. J Mol Biol 185: 261-272.
2. Antoine, R., and Locht, C. (1992) Isolation and molecular characterization of a novel broad-host-range plasmid from Bordetella bronchiseptica with sequence similarities to plasmids from Gram-positive organisms. Mol Microbiol 6: 1785-1799.
3. Bagdasarian, M., Lurz, R., Rückert, B., Franklin, F.C.H., Bagdasarian, M.M., Frey, J., and Timmis, K.N. (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.
4. Beaucage, S.L., Miller, C.A., and Cohen, S.N. (1991) Gyrase-dependent stabilization of pSC101 plasmid inheritance by transcriptionally active promoters. EMBO J 10: 2583-2588.
5. Becker, E.C., and Meyer, R.J. (1997) Acquisition of resistance genes by the IncQ plasmid R1162 is limited by its high copy number and lack of a partitioning mechanism. J Bacteriol 179: 5947-5950.
6. Beloin, C., McKenna, S., and Dorman, C.J. (2002) Molecular dissection of VirB, a key regulator of the virulence cascade of Shigella flexneri. J Biol Chem 277: 15333-15344.
7. Benson, S., and Shapiro, J. (1978) TOL is a broad-host-range plasmid. J Bacteriol 135: 278-280.
8. Biek, D.P., and Strings, J. (1995) Partition functions of mini-F affect plasmid DNA topology in Escherichia coli. J Mol Biol 246: 388-400.
9. Bignell, C., and Thomas, C.M. (2001) The bacterial ParA-ParB partitioning proteins. J Biotechnol 91: 1-34.
10. Birnboim, H.C., and Doly, J. (1979) A rapid alkaline extraction procedure for screening recombinant plasmid DNA. Nucleic Acids Res 7: 1513-1523.
11. Bolivar, F., Rodriguez, R.L., Greene, P.J., Betlach, M.C., Heyneker, H.L., and Boyer, H.W. (1977) Construction and characterization of new cloning vehicles. II. A multipurpose cloning system. Gene 2: 95-113.
12. Chang, A.C.Y., and Cohen, S.N. (1978) Construction and characterization of amplifiable multicopy DNA cloning vehicles from the P15A cryptic miniplasmid. J Bacteriol 134: 1141-1156.
13. Domíniguez-Cuevas, P., and Marqués, S. (2004) Compiling sigma-70-dependent promoters. In Pseudomonas. Ramos, J.-L. (ed.). New York: Kluwer Academic, pp. 319-343.
14. Dorman, C.J. (2002) DNA topology and regulation of bacterial gene expression. In Signals, Switches, Regulons and Cascades: Control of Bacterial Gene Expression. Hodgson, D.A., Thomas, C.M. (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 41-57.
15. Durland, R.H., and Helinski, D.R. (1987) The sequence encoding the 43-kilodalton trfA protein is required for efficient replication or maintenance of minimal RK2 replicons in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Plasmid 18: 164-169.
16. Edgar, R., Chattoraj, D.K., and Yarmolinsky, M. (2001) Pairing of P1 plasmid partition sites by ParB. Mol Microbiol 42: 1363-1370.
17. El-Robh, M.S., and Busby, S.J.W. (2002) The Escherichia coli cAMP receptor protein bound at a single target can activate transcription initiation at divergent promoters: a systematic study that exploits new promoter probe plasmids. Biochem J 368: 835-843.
18. El-Sayed, A.K., Hothersall, J., Cooper, S.M., Stephens, E., Simpson, T.J., and Thomas, C.M. (2003) Characterization of the mupirocin biosynthesis gene cluster from Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 10586. Chem Biol 10: 419-430.
19. Espinosa, M., Cohen, S., Couturier, M., del Solar, G., Diaz-Orejas, R., Giraldo, R., et al. (2000) Plasmid replication and copy number control. In The Horizontal Gene Pool. Thomas, C.M. (ed.). Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, pp. 1-47.
20. Fernández-Tresguerres, M.E., Martín, M., García de Viedma, D., Giraldo, R., and Díaz-Orejas, R. (1995) Host growth temperature and a conservative amino-acid substitution in the replication protein of pPS10 influence plasmid host-range. J Bacteriol 177: 4377-4384.
21. Gerdes, K., and Molin, S. (1986) Partitioning of plasmid R1: structural and functional analysis of the parA locus. J Mol Biol 190:269-279.
22. Gornall, A.G., Bardawill, C.J., and David, M.M. (1949) Determination of serum proteins by means of the biuret reaction. J Biol Chem 177: 751-766.
23. Greated, A., Titok, M., Krasowiak, R., Fairclough, R.J., and Thomas, C.M. (2000) The replication and stable inheritance functions of IncP-9 plasmid pM3. Microbiology - UK 146: 2249-2258.
24. Ingmer, H., and Cohen, S.N. (1993a) The pSC101 par locus alters protein-DNA interactions in vivo at the plasmid replication origin. J Bacteriol 175: 6046-6048.
25. Ingmer, H., and Cohen, S.N. (1993b) Excess intracellular concentration of the pSC101 RepA protein interferes with both plasmid DNA replication and partitioning. J Bacteriol 175: 7834-7841.
26. Jagura-Burdzy, G., and Thomas, C.M. (1994) KorA protein of promiscuous plasmid RK2 controls a transcriptional switch between divergent operons for plasmid replication and conjugative transfer. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 91: 10571-10575.
27. Jagura-Burdzy, G., Ibbotson, J.P., and Thomas, C.M. (1991) The korF region of broad-host-range plasmid RK2 encodes 2 polypeptides with transcriptional repressor activity. J Bacteriol 173: 826-833.
28. Jagura-Burdzy, G., Kostelidou, K., Pole, J., Khare, D., Jones, A., Williams, D.R., and Thomas, C.M. (1999) IncC of broad-host-range plasmid RK2 modulates KorB transcriptional repressor activity in vivo and operator binding in vitro. J Bacteriol 181: 2807-2815.
29. Jiang, Y., Pacek, M., Helinski, D.R., Konieczny, I., and Toukdarian, A. (2003) A multifunctional plasmid-encoded replication initiation protein both recruits and positions an active helicase at the replication origin. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100: 8692-8697.
30. Korfhagen, T.R., Sutton, L., and Jacoby, G.A. (1978) Classification and physical properties of Pseudomonas plasmids. In Microbiology - 1978, Schlessinger, D. (ed.). Washington, DC: American Society for Microbiology, pp. 221-224.
31. Krasowiak, R., Smalla, K., Sokolov, S., Kosheleva, I., Sevastyanovich, Y., Titok, M., and Thomas, C.M. (2002) PCR primers for detection and characterisation of IncP-9 plasmids. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 42: 217-225.
32. Leonard, T.A., Butler, J.G., and Lowe, J. (2004) Structural analysis of the chromosome segregation protein Spo0J from Thermus thermophilus. Mol Microbiol 53: 419-432.
33. Lynch, A.S., and Wang, J.C. (1995) SopB protein-meditated silencing of genes linked to the sopC locus of Escherichia coli F plasmid. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 92: 1896-1900.
34. Maestro, B., Sanz, J.M., Faelen, M., Couturier, M., Diaz-Orejas, R., and Fernández-Tresguerres, E. (2002) Modulation of pPS10 host range by DnaA. Mol Microbiol 46: 223-234.
35. Maestro, B., Sanz, J.M., Diaz-Orejas, R., and Fernández- Tresguerres, E. (2003) Modulation of pPS10 host range by plasmid-encoded RepA initiator protein. J Bacteriol 185: 1367-1375.
36. Miller, C.A., Beaucage, S.L., and Cohen, S.N. (1990) Role of DNA superhelicity in partitioning of the pSC101 plasmid. Cell 62: 127-133.
37. Mori, H., Kondo, A., Ohshima, A., Ogura, T., and Hiraga, S. (1986) Structure and function of the F plasmid genes essential for partitioning. J Mol Biol 192: 1-15.
38. Ohkubo, S., and Yamaguchi, K. (1995) Two enhancer elements for DNA replication of pSC101, par and a palindromic binding sequence of the Rep protein. J Bacteriol 177: 558-565.
39. Pansegrau, W., Lanka, E., Barth, P.T., Figurski, D.H., Guiney, D.G., Haas, D., et al. (1994) Complete nucleotide sequence of Birmingham IncPcc plasmids: compilation and comparative analysis. J Mol Biol 239: 623-663.
40. Pappas, K.M., and Winans, S.C. (2003) A LuxR-type regulator from Agrobacterium tumefaciens elevates Ti plasmid copy number by activating transcription of plasmid replication genes. Mol Microbiol 48: 1059-1073.
41. Ramos-Gonzalez, M.I., Duque, E., and Ramos, J.L. (1991) Conjugational transfer of recombinant DNA in cultures and in soils: host range of Pseudomonas putida TOL plasmids. Appl Environ Microbiol 57: 3020-3027.
42. 70), promoters, and the kinetics of the steps of transcription initiation. In Escherichia coli and Salmonella: cellular and molecular biology. Neidhardt, F.C., Curtiss R. III, Ingraham, J.L., Lin, E.C.C., Low, K.B., Magasanik, B. et al. (eds). Washington, DC: American Society for Microbiology Press, pp. 792-821.
43. Rodionov, O., Lobocka, M., and Yarmolinsky, M. (1999) Silencing of genes flanking the P1 plasmid centromere. Science 283: 546-549.
44. Sambrook, J., and Russell, D.W. (2001) Molecular Cloning: a Laboratory Manual. New York: CSHL Press.
45. Scherzinger, E., Haring, V., Lurz, R., and Otto, S. (1991) Plasmid RSF1010 DNA replication in vitro promoted by purified RSF1010 RepA, RepB and RepC proteins. Nucleic Acids Res 19: 1203-1211.
46. Shingler, V., and Thomas, C.M. (1989) Analysis of nonpolar insertion mutations in the trfA gene of IncP plasmid RK2 which affect its broad-host-range property. Biochim Biophys Acta 1007: 301-308.
47. Smith, C.A., and Thomas, C.M. (1983) Deletion mapping of Kil and Kor functions in the TrfA and TrfB regions of broad host range plasmid RK2. Mol Gen Gene 190: 245-254.
48. Smith, C.A., and Thomas, C.M. (1984) Nucleotide sequence of the trfA gene of broad host range plasmid RK2. J Mol Biol 175: 251-262.
49. Thomas, C. (2000) Paradigms of plasmid organization. Mol Microbiol 37: 485-491.
50. Titok, M.A., Maksimova, N.P., and Fomichev, Y.K. (1991a) Characteristics of the broad host range IncP-9 plasmid pM3. Mol Genet Microbiol Virol (in Russian) 8: 18-23.
51. Titok, M.A., Olehnovich, I.N., and Evtushenkov, A.N. (1991b) Cloning of the minimal replicon of the broad host range IncP-9 plasmid pM3. Mol Genet Microbiol Virol (in Russian) 9: 9-13.
52. Vieira, J., and Messing, J. (1982) The pUC plasmids, an M13mp7-derived system for insertion mutagenesis and sequencing with synthetic universal primers. Gene 19: 259-268.
53. B3. Microbiology - UK 144: 3369-3378.
54. Williams, P.A., and Murray, K. (1974) Metabolism of benzoate and the methylbenzoates by Pseudomonas putida (arvilla) mt-2: evidence of the existence of TOL plasmid. J Bacteriol 120: 416-423.
55. Yanisch-Perron, C., Vieira, J., and Messing, J. (1985) Improved M13 phage cloning vectors and host strains: nucleotide sequences of the M13mp18 and pUC19 vectors. Gene 33: 103-119.
56. Zukowski, M.M., Gaffney, D.F., Speck, D., Kauffmann, M., Findelli, A., Wisecup, A., and Lecocq, J.P. (1983) Chromogenic identification of genetic regulatory signals in Bacillus subtilis based on expression of a cloned Pseudomonas gene. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 80: 1101-1105.