Multicopy plasmids carrying the sopB gene of the F plasmid inhibit stable inheritance of a coexisting mini-F plasmid. This incompatibility, termed IncG, is found to be caused by excess amounts of the SopB protein, which is essential for accurate partitioning of plasmid DNA molecules into daughter cells. A sopB-carrying multicopy plasmid that shows the IncG+ phenotype was mutagenized in vitro and IncG negative mutant plasmids were isolated. Among these amber and missense mutants of sopB, mutants with a low plasmid copy number and a mutant in the Shine-Dalgarno sequence for translation of the SopB protein were obtained. These results demonstrate that the IncG phenotype is caused by the SopB protein, and that the incompatibility is expressed only when the protein is overproduced. This suggests that the protein must be kept at appropriate concentrations to ensure stable maintenance of the plasmid.
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