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Transfer operon, commonly called tra operon, or tra genes, are some genes necessary for non-sexual transfer of genetic material in both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. The tra locus includes the pilin gene and regulatory genes, which together form pili on the cell surface, polymeric proteins that can attach themselves to the surface of F-bacteria and initiate the conjugation. The existence of the tra region of a plasmid genome was first discovered in 1979 by David H. Figurski and Donald R. Helinski In the course of their work, Figurski and Helinski also discovered a second key fact about the tra region – that it can act in trans to the mobilization marker which it affects.

Donor yeast strain for transfer of genetic material

The invention provides a universal yeast donor strain that contains a conditional centromere and a URA3 allele on every chromosome. This strain was constructed in four rounds of crosses of individual conditional chromosome strains using a novel tetrad-based screen to identify segregants in which all marked chromosomes were contained in the same spore. The invention also provides an improved high efficiency method to transfer extrachromosomal genetic material such as plasmid DNA into any Saccharomyces strain for use with the current gene disruption libraries. The method of transfer is mating-based method which uses a kar1 plasmid donor strain that can initiate mating but cannot form a diploid and allows plasmid transfer (plasmoduction) between nuclei in the heterokaryon. kar1 matings have been used to transfer YACs between yeast strains, but previous methods required specialized genetic backgrounds in the recipient strains and suffered from high rates of spurious chromosome transfer (Hugerat, Y., et al. 1994. Genomics 22:108). Plasmoduction with the universal donor strain only requires that the recipient strain be ura3, GAL+ and have another marker available for selection of the transferred plasmid. Counterselection against every donor chromosome also limits the amount of spurious allele transfer. The universal donor strain and the method of the invention are used to screen the yeast gene disruption library with plasmid-based dominant negative alleles of various genes.
Owner:THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIV IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK

Fluorescent strain E. coli C600 and construction method and application thereof

The invention provides a fluorescent strain E. coli C600 and a construction method and application thereof. By constructing a recombinant plasmid containing an R6k replicon, a transposition unit and an RP4 conjugative transfer gene, the recombinant plasmid is transferred to a host bacterium in which the recombinant plasmid can replicate to obtain a recombinant strain, the recombinant strain and E.coli C600 are subjected to mixed culture, and then the fluorescent strain E. coli C600 can be obtained through screening, wherein the transposition unit is formed by using two ISApl1 for sandwichinga Lux gene cluster and a tellurite drug-resistance gene in the middle. The exogenous gene acquiring capability of the fluorescent strain E. coli C600 is not influenced, the stability is high, stable inheritance can be ensured, the fluorescent property cannot lose along with bacterium passage, and thus the fluorescent strain E. coli C600 can serve as a recipient bacterium for conjugation experiments. By adopting the fluorescent strain E. coli C600, recipient bacteria and zygotes can be identified more efficiently and more intuitively in the fields related to plasmid conjugational transfer, andtherefore the fluorescent strain E. coli C600 has good application prospects.
Owner:SOUTH CHINA AGRI UNIV
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