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The plasmid SCP2, initially discovered through the occurrence of a high fertility variant, SCP2*, is a self-transmissible fertility factor capable of promoting chromosomal recombination within Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). Further high fertility variants of SCP2, similar to SCP2*, were isolated from amongst the recombinants produced in matings involving SCP2, and their genetic properties were compared. SCP2 and its derivatives elicit lethal zygosis on transfer into an SCP2− recipient; this plasmid-determined phenotype allowed the isolation of SCP2− strains and the detection of the interspecific transfer of SCP2* by mating from S. coelicolor to Streptomyces parvulus and Streptomyces lividans, whereupon it underwent stable maintenance. The transfer genes of SCP2 and SCP2*, which are not normally fully expressed, were shown to undergo transient derepression on entry into an SCP2− strain. An ‘entry disadvantage’ system determined by SCP2 and SCP2* was recognized.
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