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CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 64, Issue 2, Pages 185-190Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-011-0048-5
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- National Basic Research Program (973 Program)
- Ministry of Science and Technology
- National Science Foundation of China
- Ministry of Education
- Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality
- Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project [B203]
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Escherichia coli strains are used in secondary metabolism research for DNA cloning and transferring plasmids by intergeneric conjugation. Non-restricting strains are desirable for DNA cloning and non-methylating strains are beneficial for transferring DNA to methyl-restricting hosts, like Streptomyces coelicolor. We have constructed a non-methylating E. coli strain, JTU007, by deleting the DNA methylation genes dcm and dam from the widely used non-restricting cloning host DH10B. JTU007 was tested as donor for the conjugative transfer of a plasmid containing the 39 kb actinorhodin biosynthesis gene cluster to S. lividans and S. coelicolor. The Dcm(-) Dam(-) strain JTU007 transferred DNA into S. coelicolor A(3)2 derivatives at high frequency. To demonstrate the usefulness of E. coli JTU007 for gene cloning, we constructed a comprehensive S. toxytricini genomic cosmid library, and transferred it using high-throughput conjugation to the methyl-restricting S. coelicolor. One of the cosmid clones produced a brown pigment, and the clone was revealed to carry a tyrosinase operon. JTU007 is more useful than ET12567 because it does not restrict methylated DNA in primary cloning, and gives higher transformation and cosmid infection frequencies.
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