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Article Dans Une Revue Microbial Biotechnology Année : 2021

Molecular analysis of the replication functions of the bifidobacterial conjugative megaplasmid pMP7017

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pMP7017 is a conjugative megaplasmid isolated from the gut commensal Bifidobacterium breve JCM7017 and was shown to encode two putative replicases, designated here as RepA and RepB. In the current work, RepB was identified as the pMP7017 replicative initiator, as the repB gene, and its surrounding region was shown to be sufficient to allow autonomous replication in two bifidobacterial species, B. breve and Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum. RepB was shown to bind to repeat sequence downstream of its coding sequence and this region was determined to be essential for efficient replication. Based on our results, we hypothesize that pMP7017 is an iteron-regulated plasmid (IRP) under strict auto-regulatory control. Recombinantly produced and purified RepB was determined to exist as a dimer in solution, differing from replicases of other IRPs, which exist as a mix of dimers and monomers. Furthermore, a stable low-copy Bifidobacterium-E. coli shuttle vector, pRD1.3, was created which can be employed for cloning and expression of large genes, as was demonstrated by the cloning and heterologous expression of the 5.1 kb apuB gene encoding the extracellular amylopullulanase from B. breve UCC2003 into B. longum subsp. longum NCIMB8809.
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hal-03222878 , version 1 (02-06-2022)

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Rebecca L Dineen, Christophe Penno, Philip Kelleher, Maxence J B Bourin, Mary O’connell-Motherway, et al.. Molecular analysis of the replication functions of the bifidobacterial conjugative megaplasmid pMP7017. Microbial Biotechnology, 2021, 14 (4), pp.1494-1511. ⟨10.1111/1751-7915.13810⟩. ⟨hal-03222878⟩
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