Kinetic analysis of the effects of plasmid multimerization on segregational instability of CoIE1 type plasmids in Escherichia coli B/r

The effect of plasmid multimerization on segregational instability was investigated using a structured, segregated model of genetically modified Escherichia coli cells. By including the multimerization of plasmids, the model can predict the proportion of each multimer in the total plasmid population. Simulation results suggest that the plasmid copy number is controlled by the total plasmid content (i.e., total number of plasmid origins) in the host cell and that multimerization reduces the total number of independent, monomeric segregation units. However, multimerization is found to have a minor effect on decreasing plasmid segregational stability for multicopy plasmids with average copy number per cell greater than about 25. Also model predictions were used to test whether or not a nonrandom plasmid distribution at cell fission could cause segregational instability. Even in the case of severely biased partitioning, plasmids whose copy number is above 45 per cell do not show significant segregational instability. The results suggest that when the ColE1‐type plasmid does not encode and express any large or disruptive foreign proteins, the copy number of 45 per cell may be the threshold at which only growth rate–dependent instability is responsible for overall plasmid instability.

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