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J. Bacteriol., May 1995, 2870-2877, Vol 177, No. 10
Copyright © 1995, American Society for Microbiology

Integrative and free Spiroplasma citri oriC plasmids: expression of the Spiroplasma phoeniceum spiralin in Spiroplasma citri

J Renaudin, A Marais, E Verdin, S Duret, X Foissac, F Laigret and JM Bove
Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire et Moleculaire, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Villenave d'Ornon, France.

The replication region (oriC) of the Spiroplasma citri chromosome has been recently sequenced, and a 2-kbp DNA fragment was characterized as an autonomously replicating sequence (F. Ye, J. Renaudin, J. M. Bove, and F. Laigret, Curr. Microbiol. 29:23-29, 1994). In the present studies, we have combined this DNA fragment, containing the dnaA gene and the flanking dnaA boxes, with a ColE1-derived Escherichia coli replicon and the Tet M determinant, which confers resistance to tetracycline. The recombinant plasmid, named pBOT1, was introduced into S. citri cells, in which it replicated. Plasmid pBOT1 was shuttled from E. coli to S. citri and back to E. coli. In S. citri, replication of pBOT1 did not require the presence of a functional dnaA gene on the plasmid. However, the dnaA box region downstream of the dnaA gene was essential. Upon passaging of the S. citri transformants, the plasmid integrated into the spiroplasmal host chromosome by recombination at the replication origin. The integration process led to duplication of the oriC sequences. In contrast to the integrative pBOT1, plasmid pOT1, which does not contain the E. coli replicon, was stably maintained as a free extrachromosomal element. Plasmid pOT1 was used as a vector to introduce into S. citri the G fragment of the cytadhesin P1 gene of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and the spiralin gene of Spiroplasma phoeniceum. The recombinant plasmids, pOTPG with the G fragment and pOTPS with the spiralin gene, were stably maintained in spiroplasmal transformants. Expression of the heterologous S. phoeniceum spiralin in S. citri was demonstrated by Western immunoblotting.

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