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  • Title: Selective transduction of recombinant plasmids with cloned pac sites by Salmonella phage P22.
    Author: Schmidt C, Schmieger H.
    Journal: Mol Gen Genet; 1984; 196(1):123-8. PubMed ID: 6592417.
    Abstract:
    Recombinant plasmids having PstI fragments of P22 DNA inserted in the vector pBR322 can be transduced efficiently by Salmonella phage P22, irrespective of the cloned phage sequences. When the rec function of the donor cells and the corresponding recombination system erf of the infecting phage are simultaneously inactivated, only plasmids containing the P22 pac site can be transduced. By this selective, generalized transduction an EcoRV DNA fragment of the P22 related phage L has been identified that carries a base sequence recognized by phage P22 as a packaging signal. Experiments in which only one of the two recombination systems was inactivated, showed that the bacterial rec system obviously promotes cointegrate formation between plasmid and phage DNA much more efficiently than the phage-coded erf system, allowing the specialized plasmid transduction observed by Orbach and Jackson (1982).
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