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Originally encoded by R6K, this protein is usually provided <jats:italic>in trans<\/jats:italic> in hosts engineered to support replication of plasmids harboring <jats:italic>ori<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:sub>R6K\u03b3<\/jats:sub>. In <jats:italic>Escherichia coli<\/jats:italic> this is commonly achieved by chromosomal integration of <jats:italic>pir<\/jats:italic> either via lysogenization with a \u03bb<jats:italic>pir<\/jats:italic> phage or homologous recombination at a pre-determined locus.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Findings<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Current methods for construction of host strains for <jats:italic>ori<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:sub>R6K\u03b3<\/jats:sub>-containing plasmids involve procedures that do not allow selection for presence of the <jats:italic>pir<\/jats:italic> gene and require cumbersome and time-consuming screening steps. In this study, we established a mini-Tn<jats:italic>7<\/jats:italic>-based method for rapid and reliable construction of <jats:italic>pir<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup> host strains. Using a curable mini-Tn<jats:italic>7<\/jats:italic> delivery plasmid, <jats:italic>pir<\/jats:italic> expressing derivatives of several commonly used <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic> cloning and mobilizer strains were isolated using both the wild-type <jats:italic>pir<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:sup>\n                <jats:italic>+<\/jats:italic>\n              <\/jats:sup> gene as well as the copy-up <jats:italic>pir-116<\/jats:italic> allele. In addition, we isolated <jats:italic>pir<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:sup>+<\/jats:sup> and <jats:italic>pir-116<\/jats:italic> expressing derivatives of a clinical isolate of <jats:italic>Salmonella enterica<\/jats:italic> serovar Typhimurium. In both <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>S. enterica<\/jats:italic> serovar Typhimurium, the presence of the <jats:italic>pir<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:sup>\n                <jats:italic>+<\/jats:italic>\n              <\/jats:sup> wild-type or <jats:italic>pir-116<\/jats:italic> alleles allowed the replication of <jats:italic>ori<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:sub>R6K\u03b3<\/jats:sub>-containing plasmids.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>A mini-Tn<jats:italic>7<\/jats:italic> system was employed for rapid and reliable engineering of <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>S. enterica<\/jats:italic> serovar Typhimurium host strains for plasmids containing <jats:italic>ori<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:sub>R6K\u03b3<\/jats:sub>. Since mini-Tn7 elements transpose in most, if not all, Gram negative bacteria, we anticipate that with relatively minor modifications this newly established method will for the first time allow engineering of other bacterial species to enable replication of plasmids with <jats:italic>ori<\/jats:italic>\n              <jats:sub>R6K\u03b3<\/jats:sub>.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/1756-0500-5-157","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,3,20]],"date-time":"2012-03-20T15:15:29Z","timestamp":1332256529000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":27,"title":["A simple method for construction of pir\n                +\n               Enterobacterial hosts for maintenance of R6K replicon plasmids"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"5","author":[{"given":"Brian H","family":"Kvitko","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Steven","family":"Bruckbauer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"John","family":"Prucha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ian","family":"McMillan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Erin J","family":"Breland","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Stephanie","family":"Lehman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Katie","family":"Mladinich","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kyoung-Hee","family":"Choi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"RoxAnn","family":"Karkhoff-Schweizer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Herbert P","family":"Schweizer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,3,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"1461_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2575","DOI":"10.1128\/jb.170.6.2575-2583.1988","volume":"170","author":"VL Miller","year":"1988","unstructured":"Miller VL, Mekalanos JJ: A novel suicide vector and its use in construction of insertion mutations: osmoregulation of outer membrane proteins and virulence determinants in Vibrio cholerae requires toxR. 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