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Isolation and location on the R27 map of two replicons and an incompatibility determinant specific for IncHI1 plasmids.

Université Libre de Bruxelles, Département de Biologie Moléculaire, Belgium.

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Two replicons were isolated independently from different IncHI1 plasmids. One was isolated from R27, and a second was isolated from pIP522. We demonstrate, by DNA-DNA hybridization experiments, that these maintenance regions are different and that they are specific to, and carried by, all IncHI1 plasmids tested. In view of this specificity we decided to designate the replicon isolated from R27 as RepHI1A and the replicon isolated from pIP522 as RepHI1B. These two autoreplicative regions are not related to a third replicon present in all IncHI1 plasmids that bears homology with RepFIA and that expresses the characteristic incompatibility of IncHI1 subgroup plasmids toward F factor (D. Saul, D. Lane, and P. L. Bergquist, Mol. Microbiol. 2:219-225, 1988; D. E. Taylor, R. W. Hedges, and P. L. Bergquist, J. Gen. Microbiol. 131:1523-1530, 1985). These results demonstrate that all IncHI1 plasmids tested contain at least three replicons. An incompatibility (Inc) region that hybridizes specifically to all the IncHI1 plasmids was previously isolated (M. Couturier, F. Bex, P. L. Bergquist, and W. K. Maas, Microbiol. Rev. 52:375-395, 1988). Although this Inc locus is not located in an autoreplicative region of IncHI1 plasmids, we observed that this locus stabilizes a low-copy-number replicon. This Inc locus is probably a component of an active partition locus involved in the maintenance of IncHI1 plasmids. The nucleotide sequence of the Inc region contains direct repeats of 31 bp. In addition, this incompatibility determinant hybridizes specifically with IncHI1 plasmids but expresses incompatibility toward plasmids of both IncHI subgroups (IncHI1 and IncHI2). In this communication, we present the mapping of these maintenance elements on the R27 genome.

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