Transformation of ciliates with a circular plasmid derived from an overamplified macronuclear DNA of Stylonychia lemnae.

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  • ENDOH Hiroshi
    Institut für Biologie III, Abteilung Zellbiologie, Universität Tübingen

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  • Stylonychia lemnaeの大核染色体DNAを利用した環状ベクターによる繊毛虫の形質転換〔英文〕
  • Stylonychia lemnae ノ ダイ カク センショクタイ DNA

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Transformation of ciliates was attempted with a circular plasmid containing a chromosomal DNA of the hypotrichous ciliate Stylonychia lemnae by calcium phosphate-mediated transfection. The plasmid, designated Tübingen-3, was constructed from a bacterial plasmid, a gene for neomycin resistance derived from a vector for the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium, and a 1.2 kb macronuclear chromosomal DNA of Stylonychia. Transformants were obtained at a frequency of one per 104 to 105 of input cells in Stylonychia lemnae and at a lower frequency, one per 10 6, in Tetrahymena thermophila. The vector when simply linearized by digestion with restriction enzymes failed to give transformants, whereas when the vector was linearized so as to have short telomeric sequences at both ends, effective transformation was again observed. The Dictyostelium vector, pCERF DRpl4, with a segment of DNA that contained the putative origin of replication was found, unexpectedly, to be effective in transforming Stylonychia cells. The origin of replication in Stylonychia and Dictyostelium might thus be functionally similar.<br>

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