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[bacteriophages of agrobacterium tumefaciens. ii. lysogenic strain b6m in the tissues of pisum sativum l, and the effect of glycine on phage production]. 19685674588
ultraviolet repair capabilities of agrobacterium tumefaciens. 19685681510
activation of the tumor-inducing ability of agrobacterium tumefaciens (smith and townsend) conn. by means of capsicin. 19685709363
[the role of fimbriae in the peculiar star formation of agrobacterium luteum]. 19685709368
oxidation of methoxy-p-benzohydroquinone by a lignanolytic agrobacterium strain. 19685719162
hexopyranoside: cytochrome c oxidoreductase from agrobacterium tumefaciens. 19685726844
[effect of maleic hydrazide on the agrobacterium tumefaciens. i. study of the action of maleic hydrazide on the growth and synthesis of beta-indolacetic acid]. 19685731452
[influence of maleic hydrazines on the agrobacterium tumefaciens. ii. formation of tumors due to the action of maleic hydrazine on the bacteria and precursors of beta-indolacetic acid]. 19685731453
populations of dalapon-decomposing bacteria in soil as influenced by additions of dalapon or other carbon sources.the numbers of bacteria capable of decomposing the herbicide dalapon were determined for five soils by the most-probable-number method. before treatment of the soils with dalapon, the numbers varied from 1,000 to 10,000 cells per g of soil. incubation of the soils with dalapon resulted in large increases (100-fold) in two of three soils in which dalapon was decomposed rapidly. lack of increase in numbers in spite of rapid decomposition in the other soil probably indicated breakdown by a chemical ...19695772393
bacterial attachment to a specific wound site as an essential stage in tumor initiation by agrobacterium tumefaciens.the number of tumors initiated by agrobacterium tumefaciens strain b6 on primary pinto bean leaves was decreased when cells of an avirulent strain (iibnv6) were included in the inoculum. with sufficient b6 cells to initiate ca. 50% of the maximal number of tumors per leaf, inhibition was detected at a 1:1 ratio of b6 to iibnv6 cells and increased linearly with the logarithm of the number of iibnv6. varying the number of b6 in the presence of a constant number of iibnv6 or varying the number of b ...19695773014
bacteriophage release in a lysogenic strain of agrobacterium tumefaciens.bacteriophage release in a lysogenic strain of agrobacterium tumefaciens v-1 is temperature-sensitive. at 25 c and 30 c, phage was released in a ratio of 1 plaque-forming unit per 100 bacteria; at 35 c, although bacterial growth was not inhibited, phage release was suppressed. phage synthesis was induced by heat shock, 42 c for 30 min, ultraviolet irradiation, and mitomycin c. induction by ultraviolet light was unusual-an immediate rise in phage titer followed irradiation. a large increase occur ...19695774138
tumor growth complementation among strains of agrobacterium.the ability of 31 strains of agrobacterium to initiate the production of a tumor growth factor (tgf) which is associated with crown-gall tumors on primary pinto bean leaves was determined. extracts from bean leaves inoculated with these bacteria were tested and they showed that 16 of the 19 strains that induced tumors on the leaves also initiated tgf production. the three strains for which no tgf was detected were of low infectivity and included two strains of a. tumefaciens and a strain of a. r ...19695808077
methylation of fatty acids in a methionine-dependent agrobacterium tumefaciens controlled with exogenous methionine. 19695811212
the quantitative determination of the infectivity of agrobacterium tumefaciens. 19655830983
on the extracellular accumulation and isolation of d-ribuloxe in cultures of agrobacterium tumefaciens. 19655834715
aminotransferases of agrobacterium tumefaciens. transamination between tryptophan and phenylpyruvate. 19645837443
phosphatidylcholine synthesis in agrobacterium tumefaciens. ii. uptake and utilization of choline. 19655842051
auxotrophic mutation and infectivity of agrobacterium tumefaciens. 19655847803
on the active transport of sucrose and of 3-keto-sucrose in agrobacterium tumefaciens. 19655855652
[studies of the genetic transformation between agrobacterium tumefaciens and rhizobium sp. 3. comparative analysis of the dna from the partners in a transformation]. 19655875029
agrobacterium tumefaciens conn. 3. effect of thermal shock on bacteria in relation to tumorinducing ability.stonier, tom (manhattan college, bronx, n.y.), robert e. beardsley, lowell parsons, and james mcsharry. agrobacterium tumefaciens conn. iii. effect of thermal shock on bacteria in relation to tumor-inducing ability. j. bacteriol. 91:266-269. 1966.-bacteria heated to 42 c for 30 min exhibit a decrease in tumor-initiating ability without a detectable loss in viability. the thermal shock inhibits subsequent bacterial growth for up to 1.5 hr. as bacterial growth recovers, so does tumor-initiating ab ...19665903095
isolation and morphology of temperature agrobacterium tumefaciens bacteriophage.zimmerer, robert p. (the pennsylvania state university, university park), robert h. hamilton, and christine pootjes. isolation and morphology of temperate agrobacterium tumefaciens bacteriophage. j. bacteriol. 92:746-750. 1966.-lysogeny was detected in 14 strains of agrobacterium tumefaciens among 130 bacterial strains tested with strain b-6 used as the host. partial lysis was observed with 13 additional bacterial strains. morphological studies of five strains showed that the phage had similar f ...19665922546
mechanisms of tumor induction in crown gall. i. production and pathogenicity of spheroplasts of agrobacterium tumefaciens. 19665923158
characteristics of agrobacterium tumefaciens auxotrophic mutant infectivity.lippincott, barbara b. (northwestern university, evanston, ill.), and james a. lippincott. characteristics of agrobacterium tumefaciens auxotrophic mutant infectivity. j. bacteriol. 92:937-945. 166.-mutants of agrobacterium tumefaciens auxotrophic for adenine, methionine, or asparagine are less infectious than the wild-type strain b6 from which they were derived and show increased infectivity on pinto bean leaves when the specific compounds required for growth of the mutants are added to the inf ...19665926761
requirements for and rates of formation of extracellular pseudouridine by agrobacterium tumefaciens. 19665929154
[on the production of biotin and riboflavin by different strains of agrobacterium tumefaciens (smith and town.) conn]. 19665936223
[comparative study of the fat component of agrobacterium tumefaciens and its fixed l forms. ii. variations according to the method of cultivation and study of the phospholipids]. 19665940294
on the biosynthesis of pseudouridine and of pseudouridylic acid in agrobacterium tumefaciens. 19665942965
approach to an improved taxonomy of the genus agrobacterium. 19665953827
fixed l-forms of agrobacterium tumefaciens induced by ultra-violet light radiation. 19665956332
[the mode of action of glycine on the inhibition of growth of agrobacterium tumefaciens. i. effects on the metabolism of messenger rna of the strain b6]. 19665965734
[on the testing of virulence in agrobacterium tumefaciens]. 19665985353
metabolism of amino acids in agrobacterium tumefaciens. ii. uptake of l-valine by growing cells. 19676021174
time required for tumour initiation by agrobacterium tumefaciens on pinto bean leaves. 19676032253
ultraviolet-induced changes in the infectivity of agrobacterium tumefaciens.the infectivity of agrobacterium tumefaciens strain b6 irradiated with short-wavelength ultraviolet light was followed as a function of dose. previously reported enhancements of b6 infectivity by ultraviolet irradiation, in samples inoculated after 1.75 hr of dark incubation at 27 c, or immediately following irradiation, were found to occur most frequently after losses in cell viability of 60% and of 90% or more, respectively. changes in colony-forming ability and tumor-initiating ability with i ...19676032504
purification and properties of 3-ketosucrose-forming enzyme from the cells of agrobacterium tumefaciens. 19676038493
[effects of boric acid on the crown-gall bacterium, agrobacterium tumefaciens (smith and town) conn]. 19676055850
enhancement of agrobacterium tumefaciens infectivity by mitomycin c.the ability of agrobacterium tumefaciens to induce pinto leaf tumors may be enhanced two- to threefold after treatment with mitomycin c. the enhancement may be obtained with either lethal or nonlethal concentrations. with 10-min treatments, an optimal response was obtained with 0.005 mug of mitomycin c per ml in the absence of any change in the number of viable cells. both the tumor induction process and the tumors induced by treated cultures appear qualitatively the same as controls. to account ...19676057802
formation of complexes between dna isolated from tobacco crown gall tumours and rna complementary to agrobacterium tumefaciens dna. 19676064642
[action of capsicine on the multiplication and virulence of agrobacterium tumefaciens]. 19676077893
metabolism of amino acids in agrobacterium tumefaciens. 3. uptake of l-pro- line. 19676082570
a comparison of virulence determinants in an octopine ti plasmid, a nopaline ti plasmid, and an ri plasmid by complementation analysis of agrobacterium tumefaciens mutants.transposon-insertion mutants with vir- ti plasmids were characterized and then used in complementation experiments. one of the mutants (lba 1517) had a mutation in a newly discovered vir locus called virf. the virf mutation led to a strongly diminished virulence on tomato and tobacco, but not on certain other plant species. also a mutant (lba 1505) was isolated with a mutation somewhere in the bacterial genome but outside the octopine ti plasmid that caused a restriction in host range for tumor ...19846087390
genetic and molecular characterization of the pseudomonas plasmid pvs1.a restriction map of the 30-kb nonconjugative pseudomonas plasmid pvs1 was constructed. derivatives of pvs1 obtained in vitro by successive deletions were used to localize on the physical map the determinant for resistance to mercuric ions (carried by transposon tn501), the gene(s) encoding sulfonamide resistance, a 1.6-kb region affecting plasmid stability and establishment in p. fluorescens atcc 13525, and a segment required for mobilization of pvs1 by plasmid rp1. the sulfonamide resistance d ...19846087391
[taxonomic position of agrobacterium strains of hospital origin].a collection of 31 strains received as agrobacterium tumefaciens and a. radiobacter was subjected to detailed phenotypic and genomic studies. these strains were recovered from plants, soil, water and clinical specimens. type strains of a. tumefaciens, a. radiobacter, a. rhizogenes and a. rubi were also included. the strains were tested for their ability to use 169 organic compounds as sources of carbon and energy. in addition, 11 conventional characters were studied for each strain. relatedness ...19846087709
crown gall oncogenesis: evidence that a t-dna gene from the agrobacterium ti plasmid ptia6 encodes an enzyme that catalyzes synthesis of indoleacetic acid.stable incorporation of tumor-inducing (ti) plasmid sequences, the t-dna, into the genomes of dicotyledonous plants results in the formation of crown gall tumors. previous genetic studies have suggested that the products of the genes encoding transcripts 1 and 2, which are encoded by the tl-dna region of ptia6, are responsible for inducing the auxin-independent phenotype of crown gall tissues. here we report the construction of a plasmid, pmtlact2, which directs the synthesis of the mr 49,800 po ...19846089175
comparison of t-dna oncogene complements of agrobacterium tumefaciens tumor-inducing plasmids with limited and wide host ranges.the t-dna oncogene complements of the limited-host-range tumor-inducing plasmid ptiag63 and the wide-host-range plasmid ptia6 were compared. the resulting data indicate that ptiag63 has dna sequences related to most of the genes encoded by the oncogene region, the tl-dna, of ptia6 and that these sequences are divided between two t-dna regions, the ta-dna, which encoded sequences related to ptia6 genes 4 (the cytokinin independence gene) and 6a, as well as to a ptia6 tl-dna fragment that encoded ...19846090421
host range encoded by the agrobacterium tumefaciens tumor-inducing plasmid ptiag63 can be expanded by modification of its t-dna oncogene complement.agrobacterium tumefaciens harboring ptia6 incite unorganized tumors on nicotiana rustica, sunflowers, carrots, and tomatoes, whereas isogenic strains of agrobacteria harboring ptiag63 form "rooty" tumors on n. rustica and are essentially avirulent on sunflowers, carrots, and tomatoes. in this report we show that the different host range characteristics of these two plasmids were due, in part, to differences in the t-dna oncogene complements of the plasmids. specifically, we constructed derivativ ...19846090422
the t-dna of agrobacterium rhizogenes is transmitted through meiosis to the progeny of hairy root plants.plants regenerated from tobacco hairy root callus cultures were fertilized by self-pollination, and healthy, morphologically normal r1 offspring were obtained. three of these r1 seedlings were analyzed for the presence of t-dna and synthesis of the t-dna-specific compound agropine. all three r1 plants analyzed contained the same full-length t-dna as the parental regenerant, while only two showed agropine synthesis.19846090564
t-dna of agrobacterium tumefaciens encodes an enzyme of cytokinin biosynthesis.phytohormone overproduction in crown gall tumors is due to the expression of several t-dna genes. the data strongly suggest that the tmr gene (transcript 4) is responsible for cytokinin overproduction by encoding dimethylallyl-pyrophosphate:amp dimethylallyltransferase (dma transferase), an enzyme directly involved in cytokinin biosynthesis. cell-free extracts of escherichia coli strains containing the tmr gene from ptia6nc had dma transferase activity. no activity was present in the control str ...19846091129
physical and functional map of an agrobacterium tumefaciens tumor-inducing plasmid that confers a narrow host range.agrobacterium tumefaciens ag162 induces crown gall disease on an unusually narrow range of host plants. the 231-kilobase ti plasmid which has been shown to determine host range, was subcloned into the vector pvck102. by comparing overlaps of cloned insets, maps were constructed for the restriction endonucleases sali, xhoi, ecori, and kpni. plasmid incompatibility, octopine catabolism, and at least six virulence genes were localized. plasmid incompatibility between ptiag162 and the wide host rang ...19846094476
binary agrobacterium vectors for plant transformation.a vector molecule for the efficient transformation of higher plants has been constructed with several features that make it efficient to use. it utilizes the trans acting functions of the vir region of a co-resident ti plasmid in agrobacterium tumefaciens to transfer sequences bordered by left and right t-dna border sequences into the nuclear genome of plants. the t-region contains a dominant selectable marker gene that confers high levels of resistance to kanamycin, and a lac alpha-complementin ...19846095209
nucleotide sequence of the insertion sequence found in the t-dna region of mutant ti plasmid ptia66 and distribution of its homologues in octopine ti plasmid.the octopine tumor-inducing (ti) plasmid ptia66 has an insertion mutation in its t region (the dna region incorporated into the plant genome) that results in the slow growth of crown gall tumors. these tumors exhibit hormonal autonomy different from that of the crown gall tumors caused by wild-type ti plasmids. in the present study, the nucleotide sequences of both the dna segment inserted into ptia66 and its target site have been determined. the inserted segment is 2548 base pairs long and has ...19846095299
design and development of amplifiable broad-host-range cloning vectors: analysis of the vir region of agrobacterium tumefaciens plasmid ptic58.the construction of a set of new plasmids that are suitable as general cloning vectors in escherichia coli and agrobacterium tumefaciens is described. plasmid pucd2 is amplifiable in e. coli, replicates in a wide range of gram-negative hosts and contains a number of useful restriction endonuclear cleavage sites and antibiotic resistance genes. this includes unique sites for kpni, saci, sacii, psti, clai, sali, ecorv, and pvuii and the genes for resistance to kanamycin, tetracycline, ampicillin, ...19846095350
restriction map of an agropine-type ri plasmid and its homologies with ti plasmids.the ri plasmid of an agropine-type agrobacterium rhizogenes, strain hri, was cloned in a cosmid and mapped with the restriction endonucleases bamhi, ecori, kpni, smai, and xbai. this plasmid is almost identical to pri1855 and pria4b. a study by southern hybridizations of the homologies with octopine ptib6806 and nopaline ptic58 makes it possible to propose the localization of certain functions on this plasmid, such as virulence, agropine catabolism, agropine synthesis, and the origin of replicat ...19846095353
a cauliflower mosaic virus promoter directs expression of kanamycin resistance in morphogenic transformed plant cells.the promoter region of the camv inclusion body protein gene was modified for use in chimeric gene fusions. the modified promoter was used to construct a selectable marker for plant transformation based on the tn 5 kanamycin resistance gene. this chimeric selectable marker was introduced into plant cells using oncogenic and deoncogenized strains of agrobacterium tumefaciens. both types of transformation produced kanamycin-resistant cell lines. the resistant cell lines derived from the deoncogeniz ...19846099400
molecular mechanism of ti plasmid mobilization by r plasmids: isolation of ti plasmids with transposon-insertions in agrobacterium tumefaciens. 19806100904
localization of the replication control region on the physical map of the octopine ti plasmid.a series of small plasmids has been derived from the octopine plasmid pti-b6 by in vitro manipulation. the smallest plasmid that is able to replicate in agrobacterium tumefaciens contains the ampicillin-resistance determinant from tn1, coupled to a piece of dna that is homologous to hpai fragment number 11 of the octopine ti plasmid pti-ach 5. the incompatibility functions are also specified by this region.19806100931
identification of two glutamine synthetases in agrobacterium.two distinct glutamine synthetases have been identified in agrobacterium and in the fast-growing rhizobia. a limited survey indicates that gsii may be found only in the rhizobiaceae family.19806102556
comparative properties of glutamine synthetases i and ii in rhizobium and agrobacterium spp.some properties of glutamine synthetase i (gsi) and gsii are described for a fast-growing rhizobium sp. (rhizobium trifolii t1), a slow-growing rhizobium sp. (rhizobium japonicum usda 83), and agrobacterium tumefaciens c58. gsii of the fast-growing rhizobium sp. and gsii of the agrobacterium sp. were considerably more heat labile than gsii of the slow-growing rhizobium sp. as previously shown in r. japonicum 61a76, gsi became adenylylated rapidly in all species tested in response to ammonium. gs ...19806107288
the interaction of agrobacterium ti-plasmid dna and plant cells.the tumour-inducing plasmids of agrobacterium tumefaciens (ti-plasmids) reveal several interesting properties. they are catabolic plasmids, which, instead of rendering agrobacterium strains capable of catabolizing compounds found in nature, force a plant to synthesize these catabolites (denoted 'opines'). this situation is obtained by insertion of a segment of the ti-plasmid (the t-dna) into the plant nucleus, where t-dna genes become expressed and intervene in the biosynthesis of these opines. ...19806109298
t-dna of pti-15955 from agrobacterium tumefaciens is transcribed into a minimum of seven polyadenylated rnas in a sunflower crown gall tumor.northern blot hybridization analysis of polysomal polyadenylated rna isolated from sunflower crown gall tumor pscg-15955 demonstrated that a minimum of seven rnas were transcribed from t-dna of pti-15955 from agrobacterium tumefaciens. the sizes of the t-dna transcripts were 1.8, 1.6, 1.5, 1.1, 1.0 kilo bases (kb) and two transcripts of 0.8 kb long. the relative abundance of these polyadenylated rnas varied greatly, the 1.0 kb rna being the most abundant and the 1.6 kb rna being the least abunda ...19826175956
biochemical studies on cytoplasmic membranes of agrocin sensitive and resistant strains of agrobacterium tumefaciens. 19826184960
studies on superoxide dismutase activities in virulent and avirulent strains of agrobacterium tumefaciens and also in normal and crown gall tumor cells of bryophyllum calycinum.superoxide dismutase activity in virulent strains of agrobacterium tumefaciens was found to be higher than that in avirulent strains. polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed two isoenzymes in both these strains. these isoenzymes are suggested to be iron and manganese containing superoxide dismutases. crown gall tumor cells of the plant bryophyllum calycinum were found to have higher superoxide dismutase activity than the normal plant cells. polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed two iso ...19826188336
the role of cytosine methylation in the control of nopaline synthase gene expression in a plant tumor.the ft37/1 tumor line induced by agrobacterium tumefaciens on flax epicotyls contains 22-24 copies of the t-dna encoded nopaline synthase gene per cell. all the gene copies are methylated to some extent but the methylation is not uniform, nor does it reflect the methylation level of the flanking plant dna. this extensive methylation correlates with an extremely low level of expression of the nopaline synthase gene. treatment of the tumor line with the in vivo demethylating drug 5-azacytidine at ...19836198416
partial purification and properties of membrane-bound atpase in agrobacterium tumefaciens. 19826220646
cloning and expression in escherichia coli of the tl-dna gene 4 of agrobacterium tumefaciens under the control of the pr promoter of bacteriophage lambda.a plasmid was constructed that directs expression of the tl-dna gene 4 protein in e. coli. the different steps of the construction were as follows: i) a region of gene 4 encoding the amino-terminal portion of the protein was fused in frame to dna encoding an enzymatically active carboxy-terminal fragment of beta-galactosidase. the hybrid gene was poorly expressed from the upstream lambda pl promoter carried by the vector. ii) in order to generate an efficient procaryotic ribosome binding site, a ...19846241481
hairy root: plasmid encodes virulence traits in agrobacterium rhizogenes.agrobacterium rhizogenes strain 15834, which incites hairy root disease in plants, harbors three large plasmids: par15834a (107 x 10(6) daltons), par15834b (154 x 10(6) daltons), and par15834c (258 x 10(6) daltons). kanamycin-resistant transconjugants were selected in a cross of kanamycin-resistant derivate of strain 15834 and an avirulent recipient. the transconjugants belonging to one class were virulent and contained all three donor plasmids. these transconjugants also acquired sensitivity to ...19806245060
physical mapping of part of the tumorigenic deoxyribonucleic acid (t-dan) region of the tumour-inducing (ti) plasmid from agrobacterium tumefaciens strain c58 [proceedings]. 19806245970
cytochromes c-556 from three genetic races of agrobacterium. purification and comparison of their properties.1. the soluble cytochromes c-556 from three strains of agrobacterium tumefaciens, b6, ii chrys and apple 185 have been purified to homogeneity. the strains are representative members of the three main genetic races of agrobacterium. the purity of the final preparations was established by electrophoresis with an without sodium dodecyl sulphate, by analytical isoelectric focusing and ultracentrifugation, and by n-terminal analysis. 2. properties of these cytochromes were compared wih those of cyto ...19806249592
tumor dna structure in plant cells transformed by a. tumefaciens.crown gall tumors are induced in plants by infection with the soil bacterium agrobacterium tumefaciens. because the tumor induction involves transfer of a portion of the tumor-inducing (ti) plasmid dna from the bacterium to the plant cells, this system is of interest for the study of genetic exchange as well as tumor induction. the boundaries of the transferred dna (t-dna) have been cloned from transformed plant cells of tobacco. detailed mapping with restriction enzymes and nucleotide sequence ...19806251546
characterization of tn904 insertions in octopine ti plasmid mutants of agrobacterium tumefaciens.seven tn904 insertion mutants of pti ach5 affecting agrobacterium tumefaciens virulence were studied. the mutant character was shown to be plasmid borne. four of these mutants were avirulent and carried an insertion in restriction endonuclease hpai fragment 12, a 3.3-megadalton fragment, which therefore appears to be a ti plasmid region essential for virulence. two mutants were attenuated in virulence. the inserts mapped close to hpai fragment 12. one mutant giving rise to small tumors with exce ...19806252198
is-like element is8 in rp4 plasmid and its involvement in cointegration.the structure of the cointegrate plasmids formed by fusion of rp4 and the tumour-inducing plasmid (pti) of agrobacterium tumefaciens was analyzed. in all of the nine independently isolated pti::rp4 cointegrates, the integration occurred at the same site on the rp4 genome. moreover, a 1.2 md (1750 bp) rp4 sequence (is8) was directly repeated at both junction sites of the two replicons. the insertion of rp4 generated deletions, starting from the is8 sequence and extending into the ti part of the c ...19806253354
agrobacterium tumefaciens mutants affected in crown gall tumorigenesis and octopine catabolism.mutants of agrobacterium tumefaciens which affect virulence or the ability to catabolize octopine were isolated after tn5-induced mutagenesis. of 8,900 colonies tested, 7 mutants with tn5 insertions in a specific region of other ti plasmid unable to catabolize octopine were isolated. thirty-seven mutants affected in tumorigenesis resulted from insertions in the ti plasmid and the agrobacterium chromosome. of these mutations, 12 were chromosomal and 25 mapped on the plasmid. twenty-three mapped w ...19806253441
properties of six pesticide degradation plasmids isolated from alcaligenes paradoxus and alcaligenes eutrophus.biophysical and genetic properties of six independently isolated plasmids encoding the degradation of the herbicides 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and 4-chloro-2-methylphenoxyacetic acid are described. four of the plasmids, pjp3, pjp4, pjp5, and pjp7, had molecular masses of 51 megadaltons, belonged to the incp1 incompatibility group, and transferred freely to strains of escherichia coli, rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides, rhizobium sp., agrobacterium tumefaciens, pseudomonas putida, pseudomonas flu ...19816257648
relationship between the limited and wide host range octopine-type ti plasmids of agrobacterium tumefaciens.the relationship between the limited host range octopine ti plasmids and the wide host range octopine ti plasmids ptib6806 and ptia6 was studied. the limited host range ti plasmids shared extensive deoxyribonucleic acid homology; ptiag63 and ptiag162 were essentially completely homologous with ptiag158 while ptiag57 shared approximately 64% homology with ptiag158. in contrast, the limited host range octopine ti plasmids only shared 6 to 15% homology with the wide host range octopine ti plasmid p ...19816260751
dna topoisomerase from agrobacterium tumefaciens: purification and catalytic properties.the dna topoisomerase from agrobacterium tumefaciens has been purified to apparent homogeneity. the enzyme is a single polypeptide of about 100,000 in molecular weight. no apparent separation of the nicking and sealing activities could be obtained in attempts to separate the two activities by a variety of methods, including limited protease digestion, thermal denaturation, and differential inhibition. monoclonal antibodies obtained from hybridomas likewise did not preferentially inhibit one of t ...19816262720
substituents at n6 and c-5' control selective uptake and toxicity of the adenine-nucleotide bacteriocin, agrocin 84, in agrobacteria.the inhibition of a sensitive strain of agrobacterium radiobacter by the nucleotide bacteriocin agrocin 84 has been studied. a structure-function study of the agrocin 84 molecule was undertaken. two agrocin 84 nucleotide fragments lacking either the n6 or 5'-phosphoramidate substituents were used in uptake studies of [32p2]agrocin 84. it was established that the plasmid-controlled, strain-specific uptake of agrocin 84 is determined by the n6-d-glucofuranosyloxyphosphoramidate substituent. this c ...19816263633
fingerprinting and sequence homology of plasmids from different virulent strains of agrobacterium rhizogenes. 19816264521
grown gall plant tumors of abnormal morphology, induced by agrobacterium tumefaciens carrying mutated octopine ti plasmids; analysis of t-dna functions.ti plasmid mutants derived from agrobacterium tumefaciens strain ach5 that induce tumors of abnormal morphology have been analyzed. on tobacco, a. tumefaciens mutant strain lba4060 induces tumors that specifically give rise to shoots. shoots continue to grow from in vitro cultured bacteria-free tumor tissue derived from such tumors. the mutant character is shown to be correlated with the insertion of an a. tumefaciens is element, is60, into the left arm of the t-region of the octopine ti plasmid ...19816266929
the functional organization of the octopine agrobacterium tumefaciens plasmid ptib6s3. 19816272338
restriction endonuclease mapping of the octopine tumor-inducing plasmid ptiach5 of agrobacterium tumefaciens. 19816272339
behavior of inc-q plasmids in agrobacterium tumefaciens. 19816273954
the ti plasmids of agrobacterium. 19826276093
physical mapping of dna base sequence homologies between an octopine and a nopaline ti plasmid of agrobacterium tumefaciens. 19816276566
metal coordination centres of class ii cytochromes c.the class ii cytochromes rhodospirillum molischianum cytochrome c', rhodopseudomonas palustris cytochrome c556 and agrobacterium tumefaciens (b2a) cytochrome c556 have been investigated with a variety of spectroscopic techniques. the cytochrome c' was found to be high-spin and the two cytochromes c556 were found to be mainly low-spin and sx-coordinate with the fifth and sixth ligands being histidine and methionine. the implications of the different types of iron coordination are discussed.19826279397
construction and application of r prime plasmids, carrying different segments of an octopine ti plasmid from agrobacterium tumefaciens, for complementation of vir genes. 19826281831
octopine ti-plasmid deletion mutants of agrobacterium tumefaciens with emphasis on the right side of the t-region. 19826283573
interspecific plasmid and genomic dna sequence homologies and localization of nif genes in effective and ineffective strains of rhizobium japonicum.three strains of rhizobium japonicum were examined for the presence of interspecific conserved plasmid-borne dna sequences and the location of their nif dna sequences. strains 61a76 and 110, which both form effective (nitrogen fixing) nodules on soybeans show very low (24%) total dna sequence homology with each other; strain 61a76 contains one plasmid, and strain 110 contains no identifiable plasmids. strain 61a24 which forms ineffective nodules on soybeans shows relatively high (50%) sequence h ...19816286824
genetic map of the crown gall suppressive incw plasmid psa.a genetic map of the w incompatibility group plasmid psa has been prepared through the construction of deletion derivatives of psa and the cloning of various fragments of psa in pbr322. phenotypic analysis of these derivatives has identified the location of genes encoding resistance to chloramphenicol, sulfonamides, spectinomycin, streptomycin, kanamycin, gentamycin, and tobramycin. information sufficient for the replication of the plasmid in both escherichia coli and agrobacterium tumefaciens i ...19826287164
t-dna organization in homogeneous and heterogeneous octopine-type crown gall tissues of nicotiana tabacum.octopine-type tumor tissue was obtained both by infection of plants or isolated protoplasts with agrobacterium tumefaciens and by somatic hybridization of normal and crown gall tobacco cells. analysis of t-dna by southern blotting of clones and uncloned tissue reveals that, whereas tumors induced on plants are heterogeneous mixtures of cells differing in t-dna organization, each tissue derived from transformed protoplasts or from somatic hybridization is homogeneous. detailed analysis of t-dna o ...19826291777
agrobacterium tumefaciens mutants affected in attachment to plant cells.an analysis of agrobacterium tumefaciens mutants with tn5 insertions in chromosomal dna showed that the chromosome of a. tumefaciens codes for a specific ability of this bacterium to attach to plant cells. this ability is associated with tumorigenesis by a. tumefaciens, the ability of avirulent a. tumefaciens to inhibit tumorigenesis, and the ability to adsorb certain phages. a second class of chromosomal mutations affects tumorigenesis without altering the ability to attach to plant cells. the ...19826292165
wide host range cloning vectors: a cosmid clone bank of an agrobacterium ti plasmid. 19826292969
method for the transfer of large cryptic, non-self-transmissible plasmids: ex planta transfer of the virulence plasmid of agrobacterium rhizogenes. 19826292973
mutational analysis of the virulence region of an agrobacterium tumefaciens ti plasmid.forty-nine tn3 and tn5 transposition insertion mutations were introduced into the virulence region of the ptia6nc plasmid of agrobacterium tumefaciens. five tn5 transposition mutations from an earlier study (d. garfinkel and e. nester, j. bacteriol. 144:732-743, 1980) were also mapped more accurately. these mutations defined five separate loci within the virulence region. two tn3 insertions into one of these loci, vira, result in a strain which is only weakly virulent; however, a tn5 insertion i ...19836296058
t-dna of the agrobacterium ti and ri plasmids.the study of t-dna transmission from agrobacterium ti or ri plasmid into the genomes of higher plant cells has revealed much about the consequences of transformation. it is now clear that the transformed phenotype is caused by hormonal changes produced directly or indirectly by t-dna genes. the opine synthases are enzymes encoded in t-dna that function in the plant cell. our level of understanding of t-dna-encoded functions is already sufficient to reveal clear and feasible ways to exploit t-dna ...19826297376
variation in hormone autonomy and regenerative potential of cells transformed by strain a66 of agrobacterium tumefaciens.mutant agrobacterium tumefaciens strain a66 is shown to differ from its wild-type progenitor (strain a6) by a spontaneous 2.7 kb dna insert into the t-dna region of its ti plasmid. tobacco stems transformed by a66 exhibit an attenuated response characterized by slow growth and shoot proliferation. clonal analysis demonstrates that this response is due to an alteration in the growth and regenerative potential of transformed cells, rather than to variation in the frequency of fully autonomous cell ...19826297775
the complete amino-acid sequence of the low-spin class ii cytochrome c-556 from agrobacterium tumefaciens strain b2a.the amino acid sequence of the soluble monohaem cytochrome c-556 from agrobacterium tumefaciens, strain b2a, has been determined. the sequence was derived from peptides obtained by digestion of the apoprotein with trypsin and chymotrypsin, and by subdigestion of some of the peptides with staphylococcus aureus protease and thermolysin. sequencing of the various peptides was achieved by a combination of manual dansyl-edman degradation and automatic liquid-phase sequence analysis. the main characte ...19836297889
transposon-facilitated chromosome mobilization in agrobacterium tumefaciens.we improved chromosomal gene transfer in agrobacterium tumefaciens strain 15955 by constructing donors containing homologous transposons on both the sex factor plasmid and chromosome. first, we constructed plasmid pdp35, a kanamycin-sensitive derivative of r68.45. we then constructed derivatives of pdp35 that contained insertions of the kanamycin resistance transposon tn5. by restriction endonuclease analysis, we identified two plasmids, pdp37 and pdp38, in which tn5 was inserted in the same reg ...19836298186
comparison of ti plasmids from three different biotypes of agrobacterium tumefaciens isolated from grapevines.twenty-six plasmids from grapevine isolates of agrobacterium tumefaciens were analyzed by smai fingerprinting and by hybridization of nick-translated dna to dna of another plasmid. these experiments established that octopine ti plasmids are not highly conserved, although octopine ti plasmids from biotype 1 a. tumefaciens strains appeared to be very similar. octopine ti plasmids from biotype 3 strains are more variable in terms of host range and smai fingerprints, but share extensive dna homology ...19836298189
units of genetic expression in the virulence region of a plant tumor-inducing plasmid of agrobacterium tumefaciens.the effect of a large number of tn3 insertions in the vir region of the ti plasmid ptia6nc on the virulence of agrobacterium was determined. the vir- insertions were mapped in three of the five loci that have been defined previously. merodiploid rec- strains carrying one insertion mutation on the ti plasmid and another insertion mutation (or the homologous wild-type region) on a compatible plasmid were constructed and used in complementation tests for virulence in test plants. this analysis has ...19826298572
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