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. 1986 Jan;6(1):80-9.
doi: 10.1128/mcb.6.1.80-89.1986.

Replicating plasmids in Schizosaccharomyces pombe: improvement of symmetric segregation by a new genetic element

W D Heyer, M Sipiczki, J Kohli

Replicating plasmids in Schizosaccharomyces pombe: improvement of symmetric segregation by a new genetic element

W D Heyer et al. Mol Cell Biol. 1986 Jan.

Abstract

We characterized a number of widely used yeast-Escherichia coli shuttle vectors in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. The 2 micron vectors pDB248 and YEp13 showed high frequency of transformation, intermediate mitotic and low meiotic stability, and a low copy number in S. pombe, analogous to their behavior in [cir0] strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The S. cerevisiae integration vectors pLEU2 and pURA3 transformed S. pombe at very low frequencies but, surprisingly, in a nonintegrative fashion. Instead, they replicated autonomously, and they showed very high copy numbers (up to 150 copies per plasmid-containing cell). This could reflect a lack of sequence specificity for replication of plasmid DNA in S. pombe. pFL20, an S. pombe ars vector, and a series of plasmids derived from it were studied to analyze the unusually high stability of this plasmid. Mitotic stability and partitioning of the plasmids was measured by pedigree analysis of transformed S. pombe cells. An S. pombe DNA fragment (stb) was identified that stabilizes pFL20 by improvement of plasmid partitioning in mitosis and meiosis.

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