title: Cloning and sequencing of plasmid pLC494 isolated from human intestinal Lactobacillus casei: construction of an Escherichia coli-Lactobacillus shuttle vector.
abstract: The complete nucleotide sequence of plasmid pLC494 isolated from Lactobacillus casei L-49 was determined. Plasmid pLC494 is an 8846-bp long circular molecule with a G+C content of 41.5%. Two putative open reading frames, ORF4 (282 amino acids) and ORF5 (169 amino acids), were identified as replication proteins A and B that revealed 100 and 99% similarity, respectively, with the replication proteins of plasmid pLA103 from Lactobacillus acidophilus TK8912. Upstream of ORF4 were the four repeat regions (three perfect 22-bp repeats and one imperfect motif), a putative ribosome binding site, a -10 region, and a -35 region. The shuttle vector pJLE4942 (5318 bp) was constructed using repA from pLC494, a multiple cloning site, ColE1 ori, the ori of gram-negative bacteria from vector pUC19, and the chloramphenicol resistance gene from pJIR418 as a selection marker. Transformation of several lactic acid bacteria with the vector pJLE4942 indicated that this vector might be useful as a genetic tool for the intestinal lactobacilli.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University, Tsushima, Okayama 700-8530, Japan.
authors.forename: Hwa-Yong
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: An
authors.forename: Taku
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miyamoto
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics*; D041981:Gastrointestinal Tract / Q000382:microbiology*; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D006801:Humans; D007780:Lacticaseibacillus casei / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010957:Plasmids / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014169:Transformation, Bacterial