Brendler Therese, Reaves Lucretia, Austin Stuart
Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, NCI-Frederick, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201, USA.
J Bacteriol. 2004 Apr;186(8):2504-7. doi: 10.1128/JB.186.8.2504-2507.2004.
Active partition systems and postsegregational killing (PSK) systems are present together in naturally occurring low-copy-number plasmids. Theory suggests that PSK may act as the ultimate determinant of plasmid retention, whereas the partition system may minimize the growth penalty to the host, resulting in a near-ideal symbiosis when the systems combine. Here, we prove the validity of this principle for a specific case involving the P1par system and the mvp PSK system.
活性分配系统和后分离杀伤(PSK)系统共同存在于天然存在的低拷贝数质粒中。理论表明,PSK可能是质粒保留的最终决定因素,而分配系统可能会使对宿主的生长代价最小化,当这两个系统结合时会形成近乎理想的共生关系。在这里,我们证明了这一原理在涉及P1par系统和mvp PSK系统的特定情况下的有效性。