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Genetics, Vol 141, 1231-1243, Copyright © 1995
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The Size and Continuity of DNA Segments Integrated in Bacillus Transformation
P. Zawadzki and F. M. Cohan
Present address: School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG, United Kingdom.
We investigated the size and continuity of DNA segments integrated in Bacillus subtilis transformation. We transformed B. subtilis strain 1A2 toward rifampicin resistance (coded by rpoB) with genomic DNA and with a PCR-amplified 3.4-kb segment of the rpoB gene from several donors. Restriction analysis showed that smaller lengths of donor DNA integrated into the chromosome with transformation by PCR-amplified DNA than by genomic DNA. Nevertheless, integration of very short segments (<2 kb) from large, genomic donor molecules was not a rare event. With PCR-amplified segments as donor DNA, smaller fragments were integrated when there was greater sequence divergence between donor and recipient. There was a large stochastic component to the pattern of recombination. We detected discontinuity in the integration of donor segments within the rpoB gene, probably due to multiple integration events involving a single donor molecule. The transfer of adaptations across Bacillus species may be facilitated by the small sizes of DNA segments integrated in transformation.
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