Curing of the killer deoxyribonucleic acid plasmids of Kluyveromyces lactis
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Transfer of DNA killer plasmids from Kluyveromyces lactis to Kluyveromyces fragilis and Candida pseudotropicalis.
Killer plasmids pGKL1 and pGKL2 of double-stranded linear DNAs were transferred from Kluyveromyces lactis to strains of Kluyveromyces fragilis and Candida pseudotropicalis. The resultant killer strains produced 17-fold and 6-fold larger amounts of killer toxin than K. lactis did, respectively. The killer toxin produced by each species appeared to be a glycoprotein.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Bacteriology
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0021-9193,1098-5530
DOI: 10.1128/jb.148.3.988-990.1981