title: An Escherichia coli system for assay of F1p site-specific recombination on substrate plasmids.
abstract: We have developed an Escherichia coli system for testing the behaviour of plasmids carrying target sites for the F1p site-specific recombinase. The E. coli strain BL-FLP is described, which carries a chromosomally integrated bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase gene expressed from a lac promoter, and harbours the plasmid pMS40.pMS40 has the features: (i) it carries the FLP recombinase gene under the control of a bacteriophage T7 promoter, (ii) it confers kanamycin resistance, and (iii) it uses an R6K origin of replication; these two latter features make it compatible with most conventional cloning vectors. Substrate plasmids carrying F1p-recognition targets (FRT) are transformed into BL-FLP, and the consequences of F1p-mediated recombination can be analysed after subsequent extraction of plasmid DNA. We show that this system is capable of base-perfect F1p-mediated recombination on plasmid substrates. We also present a corrected sequence of the commonly used F1p substrate plasmid, pNEO beta GAL (O'Gorman et al. (1991) Science 251, 1351-1355).
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, UK.
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Snaith
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Kilby
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Murray
mesh_terms: D001665:Binding Sites; D004254:DNA Nucleotidyltransferases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D011995:Recombination, Genetic
chemical_list: D004254:DNA Nucleotidyltransferases; C045119:FLP recombinase