CHIMERIC CLONING VECTORS FOR USE IN STREPTOMYCES AND E.COLI

• Main Authors: CHARLES LEE HERSHBERGER, JEFFREY LYNN LARSON
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 17.03.1988
• Edition: 3
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL ORENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES; CULTURE MEDIA; DERIVATIVES THEREOF; ENZYMOLOGY; FERMENTATION OR ENZYME-USING PROCESSES TO SYNTHESISE A DESIREDCHEMICAL COMPOUND OR COMPOSITION OR TO SEPARATE OPTICAL ISOMERSFROM A RACEMIC MIXTURE; MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEICACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; NUCLEIC ACIDS; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; PROCESSES USING MICROORGANISMS; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPIRITS; SUGARS; VINEGAR; WINE

There is described a recombinant DNA cloning vector useful in Streptomyces and E. coli, comprising a) a functional origin of replication- containing restriction fragment of plasmid SCP2 or SCP2*, b) a restriction fragment comprising an E. coli origin of replication, c) one or more DNA segments that confer resistance to at least one antibiotic when transformed into a cell of E. coli, said cell being sensitive to the antibiotic for which resistance is conferred, and d) one or more DNA segments that independently confer either or both of the Streptomyces tra function or resistance to at least one antibiotic when transformed into a cell of Streptomyces, said cell being sensitive to the antibiotic for which resistance is conferred. Transformants and a method for detecting transformants of the vector are also disclosed.