Transfer of Plasmids between Bacillus subtilis and Streptococcus lactis.
The shuttle plasmid pGK12, as well as several Staphylococcus aureus plasmids, was introduced into Streptococcus lactis by intergeneric protoplast fusion with Bacillus subtilis. The S. aureus plasmids were stably inherited in S. lactis, and so they may possibly be used as cloning vectors in lactic streptococci.
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Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmaceúticas, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Suipacha 531, 2000 Rosario, and Centro de Referencia para Lactobacilos, Chacabuco 145, 4000 Tucumán, Republic of Argentina.
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