Isolation of a plasmid responsible for caseinase activity in Clostridium perfringens ATCC 3626B.

AUTOR(ES)

Blaschek, H P

RESUMO

Clostridium perfringens strain ATCC 3626B was cured of caseinase activity at a high frequency after treatment with acriflavine dye (2.5%) or elevated temperature growth (9.1%). Caseinase-negative isolates retained the larger (9.4 megadaltons) pHB102 cryptic plasmid, but were missing the smaller (2.1 megadaltons) pHB101 plasmid present in the caseinase-positive wild-type strain. Dye-buoyant density-gradient centrifugation at 4 or 15 degrees C revealed that the pHB101 and pHB102 plasmids are temperature labile and easily converted into the nicked non-supercoiled or linear state.

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