Transduction of plasmid determinants in Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli.
AUTOR(ES)
Ubelaker, M H
RESUMO
Buoyant density analysis of transducing lysates derived from Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli indicated that phage particles bearing plasmid determinants contain a quantity of DNA equivalent to that found in the lytic particles. Transducing particles that bear plasmid determinants smaller than viral DNA must therefore contain a quantity of DNA in excess of a single plasmid genome. In the E. coli P1vir system, a dependence upon host-mediated recombination for the transduction of small plasmids, but not for large R factors or chromosomal genes, was observed. However, no evidence for the involvement of such functions in the transduction of S. aureus plasmids was obtained. Although the origin of the additional DNA in plasmid transducing particles has not been identified, circumstantial evidence has been presented in the staphylococcal system indicating that transducing particles carrying a small tetracycline plasmid are not formed by the wrapping of multiple copies of this plasmid DNA.
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