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Abstract

A strain of that carries in its genome a staphylococcal chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene (from pC194) responds to growth at different concentrations of chloramphenicol by an alteration in the number of copies per genome of the sequences encoding the gene. Growth at 20 µg chloramphenicol ml results in a 15-fold amplification of the sequences, whereas growth in the absence of chloramphenicol results in their loss. The mechanism of amplification probably has much in common with that involved in R factor transitioning. The hybridization procedures that have been used for accurately determining the number of copies of the amplified DNA sequences are potentially useful for plasmid copy number determination. The findings reported here also provide a potentially useful alternative to more conventional cloning strategies that are based on autonomous plasmids in The particular advantages that can be envisaged include enhanced stability of the cloned sequences and control of the number of copies that are present.

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