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Hfr FORMATION DIRECTED BY Tn10
Forrest G. Chumley 1, Rolf Menzel 1, and John R. Roth 1
1 Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
The transposable drug-resistance element, Tn10, can serve as a region of homology to direct the insertion of an F'ts114 lac plasmid into the chromosome of Salmonella typhimurium. Derivatives of F'ts114 lac were constructed that carry Tn10 insertions; these plasmids were transferred to strains having a Tn10 insertion in the chromosome. Under these circumstances, Hfr formation requires homologous recombination between plasmid-borne and chromosomal Tn10 elements. The process is dependent on recA function and on the presence of both Tn10 elements. All Hfr's isolated from a given merodiploid show the same direction of transfer. Depending on the orientation of Tn10 in the F' plasmid, Hfr's transferring in either direction can be obtained from any chromosomal Tn10 insertion. Since Tn10 insertions can be generated in any region of the chromosome, this method permits the isolation of Hfr's with either direction of transfer having their origin at almost any predetermined site. The Hfr's constructed by this method are sufficiently stable for standard genetic mapping crosses, and they have also been used to generate new F' plasmids. Implicit in the results above is the possibility of determining the orientation of any chromosomal Tn10 insertion by constructing an Hfr using a standard F' Tn10 plasmid and determining the direction of chromosome transfer. The general approaches described here are applicable to other transposable elements and other bacterial systems.
Submitted on July 18, 1978
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