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1 APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY, Feb. 198, p /8/2233-5$2./ Copyright 198, American Society for Microbiology Vol. 51, No. 2 Cloning in Streptococcus lactis of Plasmid-Mediated UV Resistance and Effect on Prophage Stability MARIE-CHRISTINE CHOPIN,* ALAIN CHOPIN, ANNETTE ROUAULT, AND DANIEL SIMON Laboratoire de Recherche de Technologie Laitiere, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, 3542 Rennes, France Received 23 August 1985/Accepted 28 October 1985 Plasmid pil7 (33 kilobases) from Streptococcus lactis enhances UV resistance and prophage stability. A 5.4-kilobase pil7 fragment carrying genes coding for both characters was cloned into S. lactis, using plasmid phv131 as the cloning vector. The recombinant plasmid was subsequently transferred to three other S. lactis strains by transformation or protoplast fusion. Cloned genes were expressed in all tested strains. Almost all lactic streptococcal strains (group N) are lysogenic (4, 8) and even multilysogenic (3, ). The prophages may be induced by UV light or mitomycin C, but a significant liberation of temperate bacteriophages also occurs spontaneously. Reyrolle et al. (15) found that over 25% of strains tested showed a spontaneous liberation of temperate phages active on other strains. Moreover, it is possible that virulent phages derive from these spontaneously induced phages. A demonstration of such prophage origin of virulent phage appearing on fermentation has been seen for a Lactobacillus casei strain (1, 17). As pointed out by Davies and Gasson (4), this was possible because the study involved a single-strain lactobacillus starter used in the manufacture of a fermented milk drink. The demonstration is not so simple in cheese manufacture because of the complexity of the starter systems in use. Despite the fact that some similarities in the morphology and lytic spectra of temperate and virulent phages have been established (4, 8), the contribution of temperate phages to the appearance of lytic bacteriophages during cheese manufacture is still contested (7, 21). Nevertheless, Lawrence et al. (1) have found that strains not readily lysed by UV light gave more stable starters than others. They also observed decreased phage problems when the amount of spontaneously induced phage was reduced. It appears, therefore, that any additional knowledge on temperate phage-host interaction would be useful. In a previous work, we demonstrated that plasmid pil7, identified in a Streptococcus lactis strain, increases prophage stability and mediates resistance to UV irradiation (2). The influence of pil7 on prophage induction was studied by following the absorbance curve of the culture. Because of the lack of suitable indicator strains, more detailed study of plasmid interaction with UV and spontaneous prophage induction was not done. Plasmid pil7 size (33 kilobases [kb]) and lack of markers make it difficult to introduce into strains suitable for prophage induction investigations. In this paper, we report molecular cloning of a pil7 gene sequence encoding UV resistance directly into an S. lactis strain, its subsequent transfer by transformation and protoplast fusion, and its expression in three different lactic streptococcal strains. * Corresponding author. 233 MATERIALS AND METHODS Bacterial strains and propagation. The bacterial strains used, their plasmid content, and their relevant properties are listed in Table 1. S. lactis strains were grown at 3 C on M17 medium (2) in which lactose was replaced by glucose (M17glc). Bacterial cultures were plated on M17glc agar (1.2% agar [Difco Laboratories]). The Bacillus suibtilis strain was grown at 37 C on Luria-Bertani medium (12). DNA isolation. Plasmid screening and plasmid DNA preparation for transformation and restriction mapping were performed as previously described (18). Restriction enzyme mapping. All restriction enzymes were obtained from Boehringer Mannheim Biochemicals, and conditions for restriction enzyme reactions were as specified by Maniatis et al. (12). Maps were constructed from doubledigest results. In some cases, the order of the restriction fragments was ascertained by partial digestion (12). Electrophoresis. Restriction digests and plasmid preparations were separated on agarose gels (.5 to 1% Seakem agarose), using Tris-borate-EDTA buffer (12). Cloning techniques. EcoRI-linearized vector molecules and EcoRI pil7 restriction fragments were mixed at a ratio of 1:3 at a concentration of 1,ug/ml and ligated with T4 DNA ligase (Boehringer Mannheim). S. lactis protoplasts were transformed with recombinant DNA as described by Kondo and McKay (9). After transformation, protoplasts were suspended in M17glc with.5 M sucrose and incubated for 2 h at 3 C to enable phenotypic expression of erythromycin resistance. Then, they were poured in M17glc agar complemented with.5 M sucrose and 5,g of erythromycin per ml for direct selection of erythromycin-resistant transformants after 7 days of incubation at 3 C. These erythromycin-resistant transformants were subsequently screened for UV resistance as follows: colonies included in agar medium were dispersed in saline solution by blending with an Ultra-Turrax T18/1 (2, rpm) and cultivated in M17glc broth. The culture was then UV irradiated as described below and plated on M17glc agar with erythromycin. UV-surviving colonies were screened for plasmid content and UV resistance. UV irradiation. An early exponential-phase culture was centrifuged, suspended in saline solution, and irradiated under constant stirring with a 247-nm UV lamp as previously described (2). UV fluences were measured with a Black-Ray Downloaded from on June 13, 218 by guest

2 234 CHOPIN ET AL. APPL. ENVIRON. MICROBIOL. TABLE 1. Strain characteristics and designations Strain Plasmid Phenotype derivation S. laclss IL143 Plasmid-free 2 IL143(pHV131) phv131 Emr 18 IL143(pHV131, pil7) phv131, pil7 Emr UV" r+/ 18 1L143(pIL31) pil31 (phv131 carrying EcoRl B fragment of Emr UVr This paper pil7) IL52 Several cryptic plasmids Wild-type strain from our collection IL52(pHV131) Same as IL52 + phv131 Emr This paper IL52(pIL31) Same as IL52 + pil31 (phv131 carrying EcoRI Emr UVr This paper B fragment of pll7) IL413 Several cryptic plasmids Wild-type strain from out collection IL1377 Same as IL413 Str' This paper IL1377(pHV131) Same as 1L phv131 Str' Emr This paper IL1377(pIL31) Same as IL pil31 (phv131 carrying EcoRl Str' Emr UVr This paper B fragment of pil7) B. subtilis M1119 phv131 Emr S. D. Ehrlich " r+/m+, Restriction+/modification+. UVX radiometer (Ultraviolet Products Inc.). After irradiation, samples were diluted in 1% M17 broth and plated as described above. For prophage induction, 5 ml of irradiated bacteria in saline solution was mixed with 5 ml of doublestrength M17glc broth. After clearing up during subsequent incubation at 3 C, the culture was filter sterilized through a.45-,um-pore size membrane filter (type HA; Millipore Corp.). A nonirradiated culture served as the control. Phages were enumerated by a double agar layer method (2). Fusion experiments. The donor strains were spontaneous mutants of IL143(pHV131) or IL143(pIL31) resistant to fusidic acid and rifampin. The recipient strain was IL1377, a spontaneous mutant of IL413 resistant to streptomycin. Fusion experiments were performed as described by Gasson (5). Before plating on M17 supplemented with Fus (25 p.g/ml), Rif (1,ug/ml), Str (2,ug/ml), or Em (5 p,g/ml) or appropriate combinations of antibiotics, protoplasts were suspended in M17glc with.5 M sucrose and incubated for 1.5 h at 3 C. RESULTS Construction of a restriction endonuclease map of pil7. Covalently closed circular pil7 DNA from S. lactis was subjected to single and double digestions with restriction endonucleases, and the resultant fragments were sized on agarose gels. The positions of the restriction sites on pil7 (Fig. 1) were deduced from the sizes of fragments liberated by appropriate combinations of enzymes. No sites for restriction endonuclease XhoI, Sall, or AvaI were found. Multiple fragments were liberated from pil7 by digestion with HindIlI, XbaI, EcoRI, BamHI, EcoRV, KpnI, PvuII, ClaI, BglII, and BclI. Characterization of the cloning vector phv131. phv131 was isolated from B. subtilis MI119. This strain, received from S. D. Ehrlich (Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France), had been transformed to erythromycin resistance with pamp1. Plasmid analysis revealed that B. subtilis M1119 contained a single plasmid with a molecular size of 13 kb which was designated phv131. A restriction endonuclease map of phv131 was constructed by single and double digestions with restriction endonucleases, and the resultant fragments were sized on agarose gels. Comparison of the restriction map of phv131 (Fig. 2) and those of pamp1 (11) indicated that phv131 derives from pam,1 by a single deletion event. Cloning and expression of the pil7 UV resistance determinant in S. lactis IL143. EcoRI restriction digestion of pil7 yielded seven fragments of 1.7, 2., 2.8, 3., 3.4, 5.4, and 15 kb (Fig. 1). These fragments were inserted into the single EcoRI site of phv131. Recombinant DNA molecules formed were used in transformation of S. lactis IL143. The transformation efficiency was 12 transformants per,ug of X - _ x -..3 FIG. 1. Restriction endonuclease cleavage map of pil7. The inside circles show the location of pil7 EcoRI and EcoRV fragments. Distances are given in kilobases. Downloaded from on June 13, 218 by guest

3 VOL. 51, 198 CLONING OF PLASMID-MEDIATED UVr IN S. LACTIS 235 a 1 z 1-1 z ) "c ECOR1R -, -O_ FIG. 2. Restriction endonuclease cleavage map of phv131. Distances are given in kilobases. recombinant DNA, i.e., two orders of magnitude lower as compared with those obtained with covalently closed circular phv131 DNA (data not shown). Ten randomly isolated UV-surviving, erythromycin-resistant transformants were screened for plasmid content. Nine of them harbored plasmid phv131 carrying the EcoRI B fragment (5.4 kb) of pil7, designated pil31 (Fig. 3). One clone harbored phv131 without an insertion fragment. The UV sensitivities of IL143(pHV131), IL143 (phv131, pil7), and IL143(pIL31) were compared (Fig. 4). IL143(pHV131, pil7) and IL143(pIL31) showed sim- A B C phv A - B -C - D - FE -G FIG. 3. Agarose gel electrophoresis of EcoRI-digested plasmid DNA. Lane A, phv131; lane B, pil31 (phv131 carrying EcoRI B fragment of pil7); lane C, pil UV-fluence (J. m-2 FIG. 4. UV survival curves of IL143(pHV131) (O), IL143(pHV131, pil7) (), and IL143(pIL31) (-). ilar and markedly increased resistance to UV irradiation. This result suggests that the EcoRI B fragment of pil7 contains the UVr genes. This fragment possesses three EcoRV sites. We tried to subclone the EcoRI B fragment in EcoRV C and D fragments (Fig. 1). Neither of these two EcoRV fragments conferred enhanced UV resistance to the IL143 strain. Thus UVr genes are probably located on both sides of the median EcoRV site in the EcoRI B fragment from pil7. Effect of the pil7 UV resistance determinant on prophage stability in S. lactis IL52 and S. lactis IL1377. A high level of temperate phages active on suitable indicator strains were spontaneously liberated fromn S. lactis IL52 and IL1377. In an aim to study the influence of the EcoRI B fragment of pil7 on prophage induction, we tried to transfer phv131 and pil31 into these two S. lactis strains. Plasmids phv131 and pil31 were introduced into IL52 by transformation with a very low efficiency (2 transformants per,ug of DNA). Under the same conditions, no transformants were obtained from IL1377 (<.5 transformants per,ug of DNA). Nevertheless, transfer of phv131 and pil31 into IL1377 occurred during protoplast fusion at a frequency of 2.5 x 1-3, with recombination of chromosomal markers occurring at a frequency of <4 x 1-7. In each case, transfer of the plasmid was confirmed by physical analysis (data not shown). The number of temperate phages liberated either spontaneously or after UV irradiation from IL52 and IL1377 harboring phv131 or pil31 is represented in Fig. 5 and. In these two strains, for a given UV fluence of < Jim2, prophage induction was higher in the parental lysogen than in a derivative carrying pil31. The highest difference (two orders of magnitude) was observed at about 1 J/m2 in strain IL1377 (Fig. ). From J/m2, prophage induction was Downloaded from on June 13, 218 by guest

4 23 CHOPIN ET AL. U- CL UV-fluence ( J.m 2) FIG. 5. Prophage induction in S. lactis IL52(pHV131) () and IL52(pIL31) (). Values are means of three independent e)periments. Vertical bars indicate the dispersion of the data. maximum and similar in strains with or without pil31. In the case of strain IL1377 (Fig. ), pil31 also decreased spontaneous prophage induction, which was one order of magnitude lower. DISCUSSION The present work describes molecular cloning of a 5.4-kb plasmid DNA fragment containing genes conferring to S. U- ) UV- fluence (J.m-2) FIG.. Prophage induction in S. lactis IL1377(pHV131) () and IL1377(pIL31) (). Values are means of three independent experiments. Vertical bars indicate the dispersion of the data. APPL. ENVIRON. MICROBIOL. lactis both UV resistance and enhanced prophage stability. This is the second report of such a cloning operation involving direct recombinant DNA transformation into S. lactis. The first one was reported by Kondo and McKay (9), who have cloned a 17.9-kb plasmid DNA fragment containing genes coding for lactose assimilation. The use of transformation to introduce the cloned genes in two other S. lactis strains succeeded in only one strain and with a very low efficiency. No transformants could be obtained from the second strain. These variations in the transformation ability from one strain to another are in agreement with the observations made by Kondo and McKay (9). These authors tried to transform several strains of S. lactis and succeeded in transforming only three strains which are probably genetically related. Our results and those obtained by Simon et al. (18) indicate that at least three other genetically unrelated strains can be transformed, though the efficiencies are variable. Cloned genes were successfully introduced by protoplast fusion into the nontransformable S. lactis strain as well as into another strain (data not shown). Protoplast fusion had previously been used to transfer plasmid and chromosomal markers between isogenic strains of S. lactis (5, 14). In this study, protoplast fusion was used to transfer a recombinant plasmid between heterologous strains of S. lactis. Plasmid transfer occurred at a relatively high frequency when chromosomal marker transfers were undetectable under the same conditions. Similar results were recently obtained by Smith (19), who transferred plasmid pamail between heterologous strains of S. faecalis by protoplast fusion. This suggests that the method could be of general use in introducing recombinant DNA into a variety of wild-type S. lactis strains. Cloned genes were expressed ift three unrelated S. lactis strains where they markedly decreased the amount of UVinduced temperate phages. pil7-like plasmids could be present in other lactic streptococcal strains and would contribute to explaining the differences observed in the response of strains to UV induction (13). In addition, these genes seemed to decrease spontaneous prophage induction in one S. lactis strain. Although this effect is too limited to have a direct practical application, a further study of these genes would contribute to a better knowledge of DNA repair and prophage induction mechanisms in S. lactis. The cloning experiment reported here indicates that it is possible to clone plasmid-linked genes from lactic streptococci into S. lactis and to subsequently transfer them into nontransformable wild-type strains by protoplast fusion. LITERATURE CITED 1. Chopin, A., M.-C. Chopin, A. Moillo-Batt, and P. Langella Two plasmid-determined restriction and modification systems in Streptococcus lactis. Plasmid 11: Chopin, M.-C., A. Moillo-Batt, and A. Rouault Plasmidmediated UV-protection in Streptococcus lactis. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 2: Chopin, M.-C., and M. Rousseau Elimination d'un prophage dans des souches mono- et multilysogenes de streptocoques du groupe N. Lait 3: Davies, F. L., and M. J. Gasson Bacteriophages of dairy lactic acid bacteria, p In F. L. Davies and B. A. Law (ed.), Advances in the microbiology and biochemistry of cheese and fermented milk. Elsevier Applied Science Publishers, Amsterdam. 5. Gasson, M. J Production, regeneration and fusion of protoplasts in lactic streptococci. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 9: Jarvis, A. W Multiple lysogeny in lactic streptococci, p. Downloaded from on June 13, 218 by guest

5 VOL. 51, 198 CLONING OF PLASMID-MEDIATED UVr IN S. LACTIS In Proceedings of the XXI International Dairy Congress, Moscow, vol. 1, book 2. Mir Publishers, Moscow. 7. Jarvis, A. W DNA-DNA homology between lactic streptococci and their temperate and lytic phages. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 47: Klaenhammer, T. R Interactions of bacteriophages with lactic streptococci. Adv. Appl. Microbiol. 3: Kondo, J. K., and L. L. McKay Plasmid transformation of Streptococcus lactis protoplasts: optimization and use in molecular cloning. Appl.,nviron. Micr-obiol. 48: Lawrence, R. C., H. A. HI"p, G. Limsowtin, and A. W. Jarvis Current knowledge and practices of phage characteristics and strain selection. J. Dairy Sci. 1: LeBlanc, D. J., and L. N. Lee Physical and genetic analyses of streptococcal plasmid pam31 and cloning its replication region. J. Bacteriol. 157: Maniatis, T., E. F. fritsch, and J. Sambrook Molecular cloning. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. 13. Meister, K. A., and R. A. Ledford Optimum cultural conditions for induction of temperate bacteriophages in lactic streptococci. J. Food. Protect. 42: Okamoto, T., Y. Fujita, and R. Irie Fusion of protoplasts of Streptococcus lactis. Agric. Biol. Chem. 47: Reyrolle, J., M.-C. Chopin, F. Leteilier, and G. Novel Lysogenic strains of lactic acid streptococci and lytic spectra of their temperate bacteriophages. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 43: Shimizu-Kadota, M., T. Sakurai, and N. Tguchida Prophage origin of a virulent phage appearing on fermentation of Lactobacillus casei S'1. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 45: Shimizzu-Kadota, M., and N. Tsuchida Physical mapping of the virion and the prophage DNAs of a temperate Lactobacillus phage tfsw. J. Gen. Microbiol. 13: Simon, D., A. Rouault, and M.-C. Chopidi Protoplast transformation of group N Streptococci with cryptic plasmids. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 2: Smith, M. D Transformation and fusion of Streptococcus faecalis protoplasts. J. Bacteriol. 12: Terzaghi, B. E., and W. E. Sandine Improved medium for lactic streptococci and their bacteriophages. Appl. Microbiol. 29: Teuber, M., and J. Lembke The bacteriophages of lactic acid bacteria with emphasis on genetic aspects of group N lactic streptococci. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek J. Microbiol. Serol. 49: Downloaded from on June 13, 218 by guest

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