Plasmids Capable of Transfer and Chromosome Mobilization in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus

Abstract

A variety of plasmids belonging to different incompatibility groups were examined to find 1 which would transfer the A. calcoaceticus chromosome at a higher frequency than the original system using the P incompatbility group plasmid RP4. Of the plasmids tested, only members of the P incompatbility group were capable of transfer to A. calcoaceticus, and none of these showed great variation from the levels of chromosome transfer obtained with RP4.