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  • Title: Conditional transduction of Salmonella typhimurium envB mutations.
    Author: Antón DN.
    Journal: J Bacteriol; 1987 Apr; 169(4):1767-71. PubMed ID: 3549704.
    Abstract:
    Joint transduction of the argR and envB genes was observed, at a frequency of 24.5%, when four envB strains were transduced to tetracycline resistance (Tetr) with bacteriophage P22 grown on an argR372::Tn10 envB+ donor. When round-cell argR372::Tn10 derivatives of those envB strains were used as donors, two of them did not produce envB transductants in wild-type LT2 and other envB+ recipients, even though large numbers of Tetr transductants were obtained. This apparent exclusion of envB mutations did not occur when mecillinam-resistant derivatives of those envB+ strains were used as recipients. Mutations conferring partial resistance to mecillinam were found, unlinked to the argR-envB region, in three of the four envB strains studied; envB+ derivatives of the four strains were competent to accept envB mutations excluded by wild-type recipients. It is suggested that some envB mutations are lethal in the absence of suppressor mutations, some of which increase resistance to mecillinam.
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