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J. Bacteriol., Aug 1995, 4377-4384, Vol 177, No. 15
Copyright © 1995, American Society for Microbiology

Host growth temperature and a conservative amino acid substitution in the replication protein of pPS10 influence plasmid host range

ME Fernandez-Tresguerres, M Martin, D Garcia de Viedma, R Giraldo and R Diaz- Orejas
Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas, Madrid, Spain.

pPS10 is a replicon isolated from Pseudomonas syringe pv. savastanoi that can be established at 37 degrees C efficiently in Pseudomonas aeruginosa but very inefficiently in Escherichia coli. The establishment of the wild-type pPS10 replicon in E. coli is favored at low temperatures (30 degrees C or below). RepA protein of pPS10 promotes in vitro plasmid replication in extracts from E. coli, and this replication depends on host proteins DnaA, DnaB, DnaG, and SSB. Mutant plasmids able to efficiently replicate in E. coli at 37 degrees C were obtained. Three of four mutants whose mutations were mapped show a conservative Ala-->Val change in the amino-terminal region of the replication protein RepA. Plasmids carrying this mutation maintain the capacity to replicate in P. aeruginosa and have a fourfold increase in copy number in this host. The mutation does not substantially alter the autoregulation mediated by RepA. These results show that the physiological conditions of the host as well as subtle changes in the plasmid replication protein can modulate the host range of the pPS10 replicon.

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