In this paper we describe transformation of Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus, the potato ring rot bacterium, with plasmid vectors. Three of the plasmids used, pDM100, pDM302, and pDM306, contain the origin of replication from pCM1, a native plasmid of C. michiganensis subsp. michiganensis. We constructed two new cloning vectors, pHN205 and pHN216, by using the origin of replication ...

Conjugation: Although H. influenzae genes may be transferred by plasmid-mediated conjugation, this process is not discussed further below as it has received little attention and is rarely used for strain construction. Conjugative plasmids are common in H. influenzae as in other bacteria [1, 2, 3]. The F plasmid of Escherichia coli can conjugate into H. influenzae cells [4] (and into many other ...

  Background and Objectives: Some of the human papillomaviruses (HPVs) can infect genital tracts and are sometimes associated with anogenital tract cancers. HPVs induced cervical cancers through the expression of E6 and E7 genes by inactivating the tumor suppressor proteins. In this study, E6 and E7 genes were chosen in order to construct an expression vector which is able to express ...

Construction of the synthetic network The network shown in Fig. 1A is implemented in Escherichia coli using the plasmid pJM31 (Fig. S1). This plasmid contains all components of the network except the lactose repressor gene, lacI, that is integrated in the E. coli genome under the strong promoter PlacIq (1). The fluorescent proteins were obtained from the plasmids pECFP, pEYFP, and pDsRed-Expres...

Following the construction of a series of pSV2-cat derived plasmids containing the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene under the control of a eukaryotic trout protamine promoter, it was noted that Escherichia coli, transformed with these plasmids, developed resistance to chloramphenicol (CM). This result suggested that the eukaryotic trout protamine promoter possessed significant proka...

BACKGROUND Whether for cell culture studies of protein function, construction of mouse models to enable in vivo analysis of disease epidemiology, or ultimately gene therapy of human diseases, a critical enabling step is the ability to achieve finely controlled regulation of gene expression. Previous efforts to achieve this goal have explored inducible drug regulation of gene expression, and con...

BACKGROUND . Modern biological research is highly dependent upon recombinant DNA technology. Conventional cloning methods are time-consuming and lack uniformity. Thus, biological research is in great need of new techniques to rapidly, systematically and uniformly manipulate the large sets of genes currently available from genome projects. RESULTS . We describe a series of new cloning methods ...

We here describe a convenient system for the production of recombinant adenovirus vectors and its use for the construction of a representative adenovirus-based cDNA expression library. The system is based on direct site-specific insertion of transgene cassettes into a replicating donor virus. The transgene is inserted into a donor plasmid containing the viral 5' inverted terminal repeat, the co...