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Plasmid DNA and the Killer Phenomenon in Kluyveromyces

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Genetics and Biotechnology

Part of the book series: The Mycota ((MYCOTA,volume 2))

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As established from studies on genetic factors for bacterial sexuality, colicin production and resistance to antibacterial antibiotics, plasmids were long recognized as extrachromosomal circular DNA. The 2-μm DNA of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the first eukaryote plasmid, as well as many other eukaryotic and prokaryotic plastids, was also found to be circular DNA (Esser et al. 1986; Volkert et al. 1989). The general notion of plasmids being circular was first undermined by the discovery of mitochondrial linear plasmids from Zea mays (Pring et al. 1977). Later, two novel linear DNA plasmids (pGKL1 and pGKL2) were identified in the lactose-assimilating yeast Kluyveromyces lactis (Gunge et al. 1981; Wesolowski et al. 1982a). Now linear plasmids are known to exist widely, not only in eukaryotes, including plants, mycelial fungi, yeasts, and green algae (Meinhardt et al. 1990), but also in prokaryotes such as Streptomyces spp. (Hirochika et al. 1984; Kinashi et al. 1987; Keen et al. 1988; Wu and Roy 1993) and the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi (Barbour and Garbon 1987).

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Gunge, N. (1995). Plasmid DNA and the Killer Phenomenon in Kluyveromyces . In: Kück, U. (eds) Genetics and Biotechnology. The Mycota, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10364-7_12

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