Nakamura T, Hayashi S, Yamanaka R, Hamashima H, Arai T, Unemoto T
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chiba University, Japan.
Biol Pharm Bull. 1993 Aug;16(8):751-3. doi: 10.1248/bpb.16.751.
A plasmid-cured strain of the marine Vibrio alginolyticus 138-2 retains a respiration-driven Na+ pump. Examinations of several strains of V. alginolyticus and V. parahaemolyticus revealed that these murine Vibrio always possessed the respiration-driven Na+ pump irrespective of the presence or absence of plasmids. These results strongly suggested that the genes for the Na+ pump were encoded by chromosomal DNA.