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  • Title: Incompatibility of plasmids containing the replication origin of the Escherichia coli chromosome.
    Author: Yamaguchi K, Yamaguchi M, Tomizawa J.
    Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A; 1982 Sep; 79(17):5347-51. PubMed ID: 6291040.
    Abstract:
    Plasmids containing the replication origin of the Escherichia coli chromosome (oriC plasmids) are unstable in certain recA strains of E. coli. However, they can be maintained more stably in other recA strains. This stable maintenance has allowed us to study the incompatibility properties of oriC plasmids. We have found that two oriC plasmids are incompatible: they cannot be stably coinherited in individual dividing cells. An oriC plasmid is excluded from growing bacteria at a much faster rate in the presence of a hybrid plasmid made from an oriC plasmid and a high-copy-number vector plasmid than in the presence of another oriC plasmid. By inserting various segments around the oriC region into high-copy-number vectors, we have shown that two different regions in the vicinity of the oriC region determine incompatibility. One region, which we named incA, includes the region essential for autonomous replication of the oriC plasmid. The other, incB, is adjacent to incA but is not required for autonomous replication.
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