INVESTIGADORES
RAYA Raul Ricardo
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A TOXIN-ANTITOXIN SYSTEM ON PLASMID pRC18
Autor/es:
HARO C, ARISTIMUÑO FICOSECO C, STEPANENKO T, OLAYA PASSARELL J, VIGNOLO G, RAYA R
Lugar:
San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina
Reunión:
Congreso; SAIB 2009; 2009
Institución organizadora:
SAIB
Resumen:
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Plasmid-borne toxin-antitoxin (TA) system is composed of a stable
toxin protein and an unstable antitoxin component and helps in plasmid
maintenance by killing of plasmid-free segregants. The lactic acid bacterium
Lactobacillus curvatus CRL 705 harbors plasmid pRC18, which is associated
with the production of lactocin Lac705, a two-component bacteriocin.
Although several plasmidcuring protocols have been applied to strain CRL705, no
pRC18-cured derivative has been yet isolated; in some lactocin Lac705-negative
mutants, plasmid pRC18 seems to undergo structural rearrangements and be in low
copy-number (i.e., strain Sac7).In this study, we describe the presence of a
putative TA module (partitioning locus) on plasmid pRC18, which is organized in
a single operon that produces a 92-amino-acids antitoxin (orf4) and a
118-amino-acids toxin (orf3); these proteins belong, respectively, to the
superfamilies PhdYeFM and COG3041. Plasmid maintenance functions of the
putative TA locus on pRC18 may explain the remarkable stability of this plasmid.