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  • Title: Autonomously replicating plasmids carrying the AMA1 region in Penicillium chrysogenum.
    Author: Fierro F, Kosalková K, Gutiérrez S, Martin JF.
    Journal: Curr Genet; 1996 Apr; 29(5):482-9. PubMed ID: 8625429.
    Abstract:
    Plasmid vectors containing the AMA1 sequence transformed with high efficiency and replicated autonomously in Penicillium chrysogenum. The efficiency of transformation of P. chrysogenum was related to the length of the AMA1 fragment used for constructing the different autonomously replicating plasmids. One of the two palindromic inverted repeats of AMA1 (the 2.2-kb SalI-HindIII fragment) is sufficient to confer autonomous replication and a high transformation efficiency. Deletion of the 0.6-kb central fragment located between the inverted repeats did not affect either the ability of the plasmids to replicate autonomously or the efficiency of transformation, but did alter the mitotic stability and the plasmid copy number. Deletion of any fragment of the 2.2-kb repeat caused the loss of the ability to replicate autonomously and reduced the transformation efficiency. Most of the transformants retained the original plasmid configuration, as multimers and without reorganization, after several rounds of autonomous replication. The AMA1 region works as an origin of replication in P. chrysogenum and A. nidulans but not apparently in Acremonium chrysogenum.
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