Obligatory Coupling of Colicin Release and Lysis in Mitomycin-treated Col Free

Abstract

Previous work has shown that KH strains carrying the small, high copy number ColE2-P9 plasmid produce large amounts of colicin and then lyse and release colicin when grown in broth culture containing mitomycin C. Strains carrying the larger, low copy number ColIa-CA53 plasmid produced much less colicin and did not lyse or discharge more than 15% of their colicin when grown under the same conditions. Naturally-occurring Col strains and K12 derivatives carrying different Col plasmids could be classified either as ColE2-like or ColIa-like according to whether or not they produced large amounts of colicin and lysed and discharged colicin when grown in the presence of mitomycin, and also by the size and presumed copy number of the Col plasmid they carried. Strains carrying multiple copies of the cloned colicin Ia structural gene produced large amounts of colicin but did not lyse or release colicin when grown in the presence of mitomycin. This result rules out the possibility that high level accumulation of colicin is sufficient to cause lysis. Conditions were sought under which colicin Ia could be released from the producing cells. It was found that mitomycin-treated cultures of strains carrying both ColE2 and ColIa plasmids released both colicins when they lysed, although colicin Ia release occurred later than colicin E2 release. It was also noted that colicin Ia-laden cells released their colicin when diluted into fresh culture medium.

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