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A strain of the basidiomycete,Ustilago violacea, was transformed with a prokaryotic plasmid, pMP4-1, which confers resistance to neomycin.U. violacea transformants were selected at a frequency of 5 per μg pMP4-1 DNA. Such transformants were at least 8-fold more resistant to neomycin than was the untransformed recipientU. violacea. Enzyme activity associated with the neomycin resistance gene was also found in the transformants. Southern DNA-DNA hybridization detected pMP4-1-derived sequences in both nuclear and mitochondrially-associated DNAs from transformants. The patterns of hybridization suggested integration of pMP4-1 sequences into the respective genomes. DNA from the nuclear fraction ofU. violacea transformants failed to produceE. coli transformants resistant to neomycin or to carbenicillin. In contrast, DNA from the mitochondrially-associated fraction inU. violacea transformants producedE. coli transformants resistant to neomycin. TheE. coli transformants contained a pMP4-1-derivative, pWP8, which was subsequently shown by Southern blot analysis to harborU. violacea mitochondrial DNA. Thus, a prokaryotic plasmid can be used to transform the eukaryoteU. violacea and acquire endogenous sequences from this organism.
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Perlin, M.H., Bej, A.K., Will, O.H. et al. Introduction and maintenance of prokaryotic DNA inUstilago violacea . Journal of Industrial Microbiology 5, 355–363 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01578094
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