Extrachromosomal Deoxyribonucleic Acid in Wild-type and Photosynthetically Incompetent Strains of Rhodopseudomonas Spheroides

Overview

Journal J Bacteriol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Microbiology

Date 1976 Mar 1

PMID 1082886

Citations 9

Authors

V A Saunders

J R Saunders

P M Bennett

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Abstract

Three covalently closed circular species of extrachromosomal deoxyribonucleic acid have been identified by electron microscopic analysis in strains of Rhodopseudomonas spheroides. The weights of these plasmids, as determined from contour length, are about 75 X 10(6), 66 X 10(6), and 28 X 10(6) daltons for both aerobically grown and photosynthetically grown R. spheroides strain 2.4.1 (NRS) and for the photosynthetically incompetent strain V-2 (obtained by N-methyl-N-nitro-N'nitrosoguanidine mutagenesis) and 74 X 10(6), 66 X 10(6) and 34 X 10(6) daltons for a second photosynthetically incompetent strain, SLS I (obtained by incubating strain 2.4.1 [NRS] in medium containing sodium lauryl sulfate). Buoyant densities uere found to be 1.717 g/cm3 (58% guanine plus cytosine) for the plasmids of 66 X 10(6), 28 X 10(6), and 34 X 10(6) daltons in weight and 1.724 g/cm3 (65% guanine plus cytosine) for those weighing about 75 X 10(6) daltons. Possible functions of these plasmids are discussed.

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