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SUBMITTER: Lebrun M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC205462 | biostudies-other | 1994 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Lebrun M M Audurier A A Cossart P P
Journal of bacteriology 19940501 10
pLm74 is the smallest known plasmid in Listeria monocytogenes. It confers resistance to the toxic divalent cation cadmium. It contains a 3.1-kb EcoRI fragment which hybridizes with the cadAC genes of plasmid pI258 of Staphylococcus aureus. When introduced into cadmium-sensitive L. monocytogenes or Bacillus subtilis strains, this fragment conferred cadmium resistance. The DNA sequence of the 3.1-kb EcoRI fragment contains two open reading frames, cadA and cadC. The deduced amino acid sequences ar ...[more]