title: Characterization of pMa025, a plasmid from the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa UV025.
abstract: The characterization of pMa025, a plasmid isolated from the unicellular, toxin-producing cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa UV025, is described. A recombinant plasmid, pMaL [pMa025-pBluescript II SK(-)] was constructed for mapping, sequencing, and development of shuttle vectors capable of transforming both Escherichia coli and M. aeruginosa. pMa025 is 8,018 bp in length and has a G+C content of 62.3 mol%. Nineteen presumptive ORFs, ORF A - ORF S were identified using ATG or GTG as initiation codons. Fifteen different ORFs, ORF a - ORF o were identified using TGA as a degenerate codon for tryptophan. GTG was the start codon in two-thirds of the putative ORFs when TGA was the termination codon. GTG was the start codon in one-third of the putative ORFs when TGA was used as a codon for tryptophan. The deduced amino acid sequence from ORF j (3,114 bp) was significantly similar to that of a putative plasmid replication protein, RepA, from plasmid pUH24 of Synecho coccus sp. strain PCC7942. M. aeruginosa UV027 and E. coli were transformed to carbenicillin resistance with pMaL-D7, a 6.4-kb hybrid plasmid (3.46 kb pMa025, 2.95 kb pBluescript II) generated from the nested deletion strategy. pMaL-D7 will be used as a shuttle vector.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY 10021, USA.
authors.forename: Margaret M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Wallace
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Shirley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Raps
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis*; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D005809:Genes, Regulator; D046931:Microcystis / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D008957:Models, Genetic; D010957:Plasmids / Q000032:analysis*; D018741:Replication Origin
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial