Plasmid pBUL1 derived from a lactobacillus and derivatives thereof
AssigneeMeiji Milk Products Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoshiyuki Ito, Yasuko Sasaki, Takashi Sasaki
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Abstract
Disclosed is the plasmid pBUL1 having a restriction endonuclease cleavage map as shown in FIG. 1 and having a length of about 7.9 kbp and its derivatives. The plasmid was isolated from Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus M-878. The plasmid is useful as a vector for breeding various microorganisms such as lactic acid bacteria, and the derivatives thereof are useful also as a shuttle vector.
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A Lactobacillus delbrueckii transformant which has been transformed with a recombinant plasmid comprising at least one foreign gene and a region necessary for replication of plasmid pBUL1, containing the SmaI fragment of 1344 bp shown in SEQ ID NO:
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