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  • Title: Copy number control and compatibility of nuclear plasmids in Dictyostelium discoideum.
    Author: Hughes JE, Welker DL.
    Journal: Plasmid; 1989 Nov; 22(3):215-23. PubMed ID: 2633208.
    Abstract:
    Copy number of the endogenous nuclear plasmids of Dictyostelium discoideum is a plasmid-specific trait. Copy number is stable over time, is constant relative to ploidy level, is independent of host cell genetic background, and is independent of the presence of a second unrelated plasmid in the same nucleus. Unrelated plasmids are compatible with one another within a single nucleus. Pairwise combinations of Ddp1, Ddp2, and Ddp5 were stably maintained over many generations in the absence of selection. In contrast, one of the D. discoideum plasmids (Ddp2) was incompatible with a recombinant plasmid derived from it (p7d2). In the absence of selection for retention of p7d2, transformants contain either one or the other but not both plasmids. The plasmids are stably maintained in host cells with differing genetic backgrounds, although plasmid-free colonies were detected at a frequency of about 1-2% in populations of some strains after 50 generations growth following a previous cloning.
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