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microbiology, Vol 145, 127-134, Copyright © 1999 by Society for General Microbiology
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T O'Sullivan, D van Sinderen and G Fitzgerald
Department of Microbiology, University College, Cork, Ireland.
The 6.5 kb cryptic plasmid pCI65st from Streptococcus thermophilus NDI- 6, a strain isolated from the Indian fermented milk dahi, was subcloned and sequenced. Five putative ORFs were identified. ORF1 could encode a 315 aa polypeptide almost identical to the RepA protein of previously sequenced S. thermophilus plasmids, indicating that pCI65st is one of the pC194 group of small gram-positive rolling-circle plasmids. ORFs 2 and 4 were virtually identical and could specify proteins of approximately 150 aa with significant similarity to the small heat- shock proteins described from a variety of gram-positive bacteria. ORF3 could encode a 415 aa protein similar to enolase, an enzyme involved in glycolysis and gluconeogenesis. ORF5 could encode a 412 aa protein which had high similarity to the HsdS (specificity) proteins of type I restriction-modification systems. Variants of strain NDI-6 which lacked pCI65st were readily isolated after subculture of the parent strain at 32 degrees C. The plasmid-bearing parent culture was significantly more resistant to a temperature shift from 42 degrees C to 62 degrees C than its plasmid-free variant and expressed proteins which corresponded with the predicted translation products from ORF2 and ORF4. In addition, plasmid-free mutants were lysed in broth by bacteriophages to which the parent culture was resistant.
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