The complete nucleotide sequence of a small cryptic plasmid from Lactobacillus plantarum

• Published in: Plasmid Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 175 - 179
• Main Author: Skaugen, Morten
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Diego, CA Elsevier Inc 01.09.1989; Elsevier
• Subjects: Amino Acid Sequence; Automatic Data Processing; Base Sequence; Biological and medical sciences; Chromosome Deletion; Cloning, Molecular; DNA Replication; DNA, Bacterial - isolation & purification; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Genes. Genome; LACTOBACILLUS; Lactobacillus - genetics; Lactobacillus - growth & development; Lactobacillus plantarum; Molecular and cellular biology; Molecular genetics; Molecular Sequence Data; NUCLEOTIDE; Nucleotide Mapping; NUCLEOTIDES; NUCLEOTIDOS; PLASMIDE; PLASMIDIOS; PLASMIDS; Plasmid; Nucleotide sequence; Bacteria; Lactobacillaceae; Homology; Single stranded DNA; Cryptic
• ISSN: 0147-619X; 1095-9890
• DOI: 10.1016/0147-619X(89)90028-0

The complete nucleotide sequence of a cryptic plasmid isolated from a Lactobacillus plantarum strain has been determined. The plasmid, designated pC30i1, has a molecular size of 2140 bp and a GC content of 37%. The sequence contains one major open reading frame (ORF R) of 951 bp, encoding a basic polypeptide of 317 amino acids, and a molecular weight of 36,956. ORF R shows extensive sequence similarity with genes coding for replication-associated proteins in a group of gram-positive plasmids known to replicate via single-stranded intermediates (ssDNA plasmids), and a stretch of 9 amino acids in the translation of ORF R closely matches a conserved region in these proteins, as well as the active site of the ΦX174 Rep protein. Sequences similar to the ssDNA plasmid origins of replication are also present in the pC30i1 sequence, strengthening the hypothesis that pC30i1 belongs to the ssDNA plasmid family. The other main feature of the pC30i1 sequence is a noncoding region consisting of 14 direct, imperfect repeats of a 17-bp sequence, which may have an incompatibility function.