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Highly efficient and reproducible transformation ofChlorobium vibrioforme with plasmid DNA has been achieved by electroporation. Specific parameters have been optimized for the electrotransformation procedure. The method was developed using a construct containing a full copy of thepscC gene encoding the cytochromec 551 subunit of the photosynthetic reaction center complex and theaadA gene encoding streptomycin resistance as selectable marker. Southern blotting analysis showed that the tested colonies were true transformants with the plasmid integrated into the genome by single homologous recombination. No transformants were obtained using the vector without thepscC gene showing that this vector does not replicate inC. vibrioforme. Thus transformation is possible only by homologous recombination. When using constructs designed to inactivate thepscC gene by insertion no transformants were obtained, indicating that the gene is indispensable for growth. The vector pVS2 carrying genes for erythromycin and chloramphenicol resistance was shown to replicate inC. vibrioforme. The two transformations shown here, provide an important genetical tool in the further analysis of structure and function of the photosynthetic apparatus in green sulfur bacteria.
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Kjærulff, S., Diep, D.B., Okkels, J.S. et al. Highly efficient integration of foreign DNA into the genome of the green sulfur bacterium,Chlorobium vibrioforme by homologous recombination. Photosynth Res 41, 277–283 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02184168
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