Involvement of antisense RNA in replication control of the lactococcal plasmid pND324
1998
pND324 belongs to a family of closely related theta-type plasmids from Lactococcus lactis. An antisense RNA, termed countertranscript (ctRNA), was identified which is complementary to the leader sequence of the mRNA that encodes RepB, a protein essential for plasmid replication. When the synthesis of ctRNA was abolished by site-directed mutagenesis within its promoter region, the mutant replicon showed a 1.8-fold increase in copy number. Similar ctRNA promoter sequences are readily identifiable in 12 other published lactococcal theta-type plasmids, suggesting that they all encode a similar ctRNA-mediated regulatory mechanism.
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