A host-vector system for gene cloning in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803

1986 
Synechocystis 6803 contains at least four cryptic plasmids of 2.27 kb (pUS1, pUS2 and pUS3) and 5.20 kb (pUS4). The 1.70 kb HpaI fragments of the related plasmids pUS2 and pUS3 were cloned into the Apr gene of the E. coli plasmid pACYC177, yielding the Kmr hybrid plasmids pUF12 and pUF3 respectively. pUF3 recombines in Synechocystis 6803 with a 2.27 kb plasmid giving the Kmr shuttle vector pUF311. The 1.35 kb HaeII fragment containing the Cm2 gene of the E. coli plasmid pACYC184 was cloned in pUF311 generating the Cmr Kmr shuttle vector pFCLV7. Wild-type cells of Synechocystis 6803 are transformed, albeit poorly, by the plasmids pUF3, pUF12 and pFCLV7. pFCLV7 very efficiently transforms the SUF311 strain of Synechocystis 6803 containing pUF311 as a resident plasmid. This is due to recombination between the homologous parts of pFCLV7 and pUF311. For the same reason the strain SUF311 is also efficiently transformable by E. coli plasmids, as shown for pLF8, provided that they have some homology with the E. coli part of pUF311.
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