Factors encoded by and affecting the holding stability of yeast plasmid pSR1 |
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Authors: | Amornrat Jearnpipatkul Hiroyuki Araki and Yasuji Oshima |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Fermentation Technology, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, 565 Suita-shi, Osaka, Japan |
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Abstract: | Summary A 2 m DNA-like plasmid, pSR1, isolated from a strain of Zygosaccharomyces rouxii has three coding frames, P, S and R. Insertional inactivation of R completely abolished the intramolecular recombination, and the defect was complemented by an intact R frame on a coexistent plasmid molecule. The P and S regions were also transactive and important, but not essential, for the stable maintenance of the plasmid molecules. Insertional disruption of the P frame suggested that it produces a protein factor. Similar insertional disruption of the S frame affected the plasmid stability in Z. rouxii and Saccharomyces cerevisiae hosts differently, depending on whether the inserted DNA fragment was a short 8 bp SalI linker or a long (2.2 kb) DNA fragment. Results strongly suggested that the S region encodes two factors, one RNA and the other a protein, and that the S protein is compatible with a sprecific hostfactor in Z. rouxii, but not in S. cerevisiae. In addition, a cis-acting locus, Z, was found at a site in the plasmid molecule where no distinct open reading frames were located. No long direct repeats or inverted repeats were observed in the Z region, such as are found in the REP3 locus of 2 m DNA. |
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Keywords: | pSR1 plasmid Stability control Functional region Zygosaccharomyces rouxii Saccharomyces cerevisiae |
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