Binding of homologous polymerized deoxyribonucleic acid by Streptomyces griseus.

Germaine, G. R. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), and D. L. Anderson. Binding of homologous polymerized deoxyribonucleic acid by Streptomyces griseus. J. Bacteriol. 92:662-667. 1966-An irreversible P(32) deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) binding system is described for Streptomyces griseus S104. The 69% guanine plus cytosine (GC) S. griseus DNA was bound by late exponential -early stationary phase cultures. Simultaneous addition of deoxyribonuclease with the P(32)-DNA to maximally receptive cultures reduced the uptake by 98%. Saturation of the binding ability occurred after 20-min incubation of cells with P(32)-DNA. Preparative cesium chloride density gradient centrifugation of the P(32)-DNA revealed that 98% of the label banded in the position expected for S. griseus DNA. Sedimentation of the P(32)-DNA at both 23 and 37 mug/ml indicated a molecular weight of 10.8 million. Attempts to transform S. griseus S104 auxotrophs to prototrophy by use of immediate and delayed selective procedures were unsuccessful.