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Bacteria as hosts

Bacteria are often used as hosts for multiplication of chimeric vectors or recombinant DNA molecules. Therefore, a bacterial strain should be available, which should be modified or selected for high transformation efficiency to be used as a host. Bacteria can be classified into. (i) gram negative bacteria e.g. Escherichia coli. Pseudomonas, Rhizobiumand (ii) gram positive bacteria e.g. Bacillus subtilis and Streptomycessp.

Ordinarily same plasmid can not maintain itself in stable form in both classes of bacteria and, therefore, plasmid v ctors for two classes usually differ. While gram negative bacteria can be used as hosts for plasmids, phages and' cosmid vectors, gram positive bacteria can be used as hosts for only plasmids. Chimeric vector is inserted into bacterial cells and transformed bacterial colonies are selected and used for multiplication in suspension cultures. The chimeric DNA is retrieved, whenever required.

 

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