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Lutter I, Walther M, Fischer S, Cullum J. A genetics-based approach to studying photodynamic inactivation in Escherichia coli K12. Photodiagnosis Photodyn Ther 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pdpdt.2017.01.095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Cullum J, Stevens D, Joshi M. The importance of planetary rotation period for ocean heat transport. Astrobiology 2014; 14:645-50. [PMID: 25041658 PMCID: PMC4126269 DOI: 10.1089/ast.2014.1171] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2014] [Accepted: 05/20/2014] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The climate and, hence, potential habitability of a planet crucially depends on how its atmospheric and ocean circulation transports heat from warmer to cooler regions. However, previous studies of planetary climate have concentrated on modeling the dynamics of atmospheres, while dramatically simplifying the treatment of oceans, which neglects or misrepresents the effect of the ocean in the total heat transport. Even the majority of studies with a dynamic ocean have used a simple so-called aquaplanet that has no continental barriers, which is a configuration that dramatically changes the ocean dynamics. Here, the significance of the response of poleward ocean heat transport to planetary rotation period is shown with a simple meridional barrier--the simplest representation of any continental configuration. The poleward ocean heat transport increases significantly as the planetary rotation period is increased. The peak heat transport more than doubles when the rotation period is increased by a factor of ten. There are also significant changes to ocean temperature at depth, with implications for the carbon cycle. There is strong agreement between the model results and a scale analysis of the governing equations. This result highlights the importance of both planetary rotation period and the ocean circulation when considering planetary habitability.
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- J Cullum
- 1 Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of East Anglia , Norwich, UK
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Bruce-Micah R, Hüttenberger D, Freitag L, Cullum J, Foth HJ. Pharmacokinetic of ALA and h-ALA induced porphyrins in the models Mycobacterium phlei and Mycobacterium smegmatis. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology 2009; 97:1-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2009.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2008] [Revised: 04/27/2009] [Accepted: 07/02/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Zucko J, Skunca N, Curk T, Zupan B, Long PF, Cullum J, Kessin RH, Hranueli D. Polyketide synthase genes and the natural products potential of Dictyostelium discoideum. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 23:2543-9. [PMID: 17660200 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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MOTIVATION The genome of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum contains an unusually large number of polyketide synthase (PKS) genes. An analysis of the genes is a first step towards understanding the biological roles of their products and exploiting novel products. RESULTS A total of 45 Type I iterative PKS genes were found, 5 of which are probably pseudogenes. Catalytic domains that are homologous with known PKS sequences as well as possible novel domains were identified. The genes often occurred in clusters of 2-5 genes, where members of the cluster had very similar sequences. The D.discoideum PKS genes formed a clade distinct from fungal and bacterial genes. All nine genes examined by RT-PCR were expressed, although at different developmental stages. The promoters of PKS genes were much more divergent than the structural genes, although we have identified motifs that are unique to some PKS gene promoters.
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- J Zucko
- Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Pierottijeva 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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Carlson LE, Angen M, Cullum J, Goodey E, Koopmans J, Lamont L, MacRae JH, Martin M, Pelletier G, Robinson J, Simpson JSA, Speca M, Tillotson L, Bultz BD. High levels of untreated distress and fatigue in cancer patients. Br J Cancer 2004; 90:2297-304. [PMID: 15162149 PMCID: PMC2410292 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6601887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 643] [Impact Index Per Article: 32.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The purpose of the study was to assess a large representative sample of cancer patients on distress levels, common psychosocial problems, and awareness and use of psychosocial support services. A total of 3095 patients were assessed over a 4-week period with the Brief Symptom Inventory-18 (BSI-18), a common problems checklist, and on awareness and use of psychosocial resources. Full data was available on 2776 patients. On average, patients were 60 years old, Caucasian (78.3%), and middle class. Approximately, half were attending for follow-up care. Types of cancer varied, with the largest groups being breast (23.5%), prostate (16.9%), colorectal (7.5%), and lung (5.8%) cancer patients. Overall, 37.8% of all patients met criteria for general distress in the clinical range. A higher proportion of men met case criteria for somatisation, and more women for depression. There were no gender differences in anxiety or overall distress severity. Minority patients were more likely to be distressed, as were those with lower income, cancers other than prostate, and those currently on active treatment. Lung, pancreatic, head and neck, Hodgkin's disease, and brain cancer patients were the most distressed. Almost half of all patients who met distress criteria had not sought professional psychosocial support nor did they intend to in the future. In conclusion, distress is very common in cancer patients across diagnoses and across the disease trajectory. Many patients who report high levels of distress are not taking advantage of available supportive resources. Barriers to such use, and factors predicting distress and use of psychosocial care, require further exploration.
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- L E Carlson
- Department of Psychosocial Resources, Tom Baker Cancer Centre, Alberta Cancer Board, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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A Tn5-induced glucose dehydrogenase (GDH) deficient mutant of Gluconobacter oxydans IFO 3293 was characterised. DNA sequencing showed that the insertion site occurred in an open reading frame with homology to the pqqE gene. It was shown that acid production could be restored by addition of the coenzyme pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) to the medium. The pqq cluster of G. oxydans ATCC 9937 was cloned and sequenced. It has five genes pqqA-E. The cluster could complement the Tn5-induced mutation in IFO 3293. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis suggested that the pqq genes are not closely linked to the ribF gene that produces the riboflavin cofactor for the gluconic acid dehydrogenase.
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- M Felder
- LB Genetik, Universität Kaiserlautern, Postfach 3049, Germany
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Streptomyces species have a linear chromosome of approximately 8 Mb in size. Many strains also carry linear plasmids. Most of these linear elements contain terminal proteins covalently bound to the 5' ends of the DNA. Using a method for the visualisation of terminal DNA fragments in agarose gels, it was possible to see three fragments in S. rimosus and five fragments in S. avermitilis. The method was also used to clone the 298 bp BamHI fragment carrying the left end of plasmid SLP2. Analysis of the sequence showed that the end resembled other Streptomyces chromosome and plasmid ends, but there were eight palindromes (instead of seven) and a tandem duplication of a 14 bp sequence.
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- A Stoll
- LB Genetik, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Stoll A, Cullum J. Improved method for the isolation and visualization of terminal protein-bound DNA fragments in actinomycetes. Biotechniques 2000; 29:740, 743-5. [PMID: 11056802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023] Open
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- A Stoll
- University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Yamasaki M, Miyashita K, Cullum J, Kinashi H. A complex insertion sequence cluster at a point of interaction between the linear plasmid SCP1 and the linear chromosome of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). J Bacteriol 2000; 182:3104-10. [PMID: 10809688 PMCID: PMC94495 DOI: 10.1128/jb.182.11.3104-3110.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2000] [Accepted: 03/13/2000] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The giant linear plasmid SCP1 can integrate into the central region of the linear chromosome of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). Nucleotide sequence analysis around the target site for SCP1 integration in strain M145 identified a total of five copies of four insertion sequences (ISs) in a 6.5-kb DNA stretch. Three of the four (IS468, IS469, and IS470) are new IS elements, and the other is IS466. All of these elements contain one open reading frame which encodes a transposase-like protein. Two copies of IS468 (IS468A and -B) are tandemly aligned at the left end of the cluster. Following these, IS469 and IS466 are located in a tail-to-tail orientation with 69.3% identity to each other. IS470 is located at the right end of the cluster. The activities of IS466 and IS468 were demonstrated by transposition experiments and sequence comparison of several copies, respectively.
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- M Yamasaki
- Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Hiroshima University, 1-4-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8527, Japan
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Cullum J, Ruehli A, Zhang T. A method for reduced-order modeling and simulation of large interconnect circuits and its application to PEEC models with retardation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2000. [DOI: 10.1109/82.839662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Gluconobacter oxydans ATCC 9937 was subjected to transposon mutagenesis using Tn5. A non-pigmented mutant was shown to be defective in gluconic acid dehydrogenase and to produce gluconic acid from glucose, whereas the parent strain produced 2, 5-diketogluconic acid. Cloning and sequencing of the region containing the Tn5 insertion showed that the insertion point occurred in an open reading frame homologous (42% amino acid identity) to the ribF genes of Pseudomonas fluorescens and Escherichia coli. The resulting lack of a riboflavin cofactor would explain the loss of enzyme activity.
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- A Gupta
- Division of Biotechnology, Regional Research Laboratory, Canal Road, Jammu Tawi, India
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Pandza S, Biuković G, Paravić A, Dadbin A, Cullum J, Hranueli D. Recombination between the linear plasmid pPZG101 and the linear chromosome of Streptomyces rimosus can lead to exchange of ends. Mol Microbiol 1998; 28:1165-76. [PMID: 9680206 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00877.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The 387kb linear plasmid pPZG101 of Streptomyces rimosus R6 can integrate into the chromosome or form a prime plasmid carrying the oxytetracycline biosynthesis cluster. The integration of plasmid pPZG101 into the linear chromosome of S. rimosus R6-501 in mutant MV25 was shown to be due to a single cross-over at a 4 bp common sequence. pPZG101 had integrated into a 250 kb DNA sequence that was reiterated at a low level. This sequence includes the oxytetracycline biosynthesis cluster, so that homologous recombination generated a mixed population carrying different copy numbers of the region. The 1 Mb linear plasmid pPZG103 in mutant MV17 had also arisen from a cross-over between pPZG101 and the chromosome, so that one end of pPZG103 consists of c. 850 kb of chromosomal sequence including the oxytetracycline biosynthesis cluster. The plasmid pPZG101 was shown to consist of a unique central region of about 30 kb flanked by terminal inverted repeats of about 180 kb. Analysis of a presumed ancestor plasmid pPZG102 suggested that the long terminal repeats had arisen by a recombination event during the strain development programme.
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- S Pandza
- LB Genetik, Universität Kaiserslautern, Federal Republic of Germany
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Redenbach M, Kieser HM, Denapaite D, Eichner A, Cullum J, Kinashi H, Hopwood DA. A set of ordered cosmids and a detailed genetic and physical map for the 8 Mb Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) chromosome. Mol Microbiol 1996; 21:77-96. [PMID: 8843436 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.6191336.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 410] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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A Supercos-1 library carrying chromosomal DNA of a plasmid-free derivative of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) was organized into an ordered encyclopaedia of overlapping clones by hybridization. The minimum set of overlapping clones representing the entire chromosome (with three short gaps) consists of 319 cosmids. The average insert size is 37.5 kb and the set of clones therefore divides the chromosome into 637 alternating unique and overlapping segments which have an average length of approx. 12.5 kb. More than 170 genes, gene clusters and other genetic markers were mapped to their specific segment by hybridization to the encyclopaedia. Genes could be cloned by direct transformation and complementation of S. coelicolor mutants with cosmids isolated from Escherichia coli, selecting for insertion into the chromosome by homologous recombination. As in other streptomycetes, the ends of the chromosome have long terminal inverted repeats.
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- M Redenbach
- LB Genetik, Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Rauland U, Glocker I, Redenbach M, Cullum J. DNA amplifications and deletions in Streptomyces lividans 66 and the loss of one end of the linear chromosome. Mol Gen Genet 1995; 246:37-44. [PMID: 7823911 DOI: 10.1007/bf00290131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Thirty-two 2-deoxygalactose-resistant mutants with DNA amplifications were isolated from Streptomyces lividans 66 strains carrying plasmid pMT664, which carries an agarase gene (dagA) and IS466. Thirty-one of the mutants carried amplified DNA sequences from a 70 kb region about 300 kb from one end of the linear chromosome in this species. In 28 of the mutants, all the wild-type sequences between the amplified region and the start of the 30 kb inverted repeat that forms the chromosome end were deleted. Thus, there appeared to be loss of one chromosome end and its replacement by the DNA amplification. In some mutants there amplification of a previously characterised 5.7 kb sequence that lies about 600 kb from the other chromosome end was also noted.
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Gravius B, Glocker D, Pigac J, Pandza K, Hranueli D, Cullum J. The 387 kb linear plasmid pPZG101 of Streptomyces rimosus and its interactions with the chromosome. Microbiology (Reading) 1994; 140 ( Pt 9):2271-7. [PMID: 7952179 DOI: 10.1099/13500872-140-9-2271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The linear plasmid pPZG101 of Streptomyces rimosus R6 was restriction mapped with the enzymes AseI, BfrI, DraI and XbaI. It is 387 kb in size and the ends are inverted repeats of at least 95 kb in length. Twenty spontaneous morphological variants and seventeen auxotrophic mutants were screened for changes in the plasmid. Two strains were found that had lost all plasmid sequences. Four strains had integrated parts of the plasmid into the chromosome. Restriction analysis suggested that at least three of the integrated strains had retained free plasmid ends. If it is assumed that the chromosome of S. rimosus R6 is linear, this might be explained by replacement of one or both chromosome ends by a plasmid end. One strain, which overproduced oxytetracycline, carried an enlarged linear plasmid of 1 Mb in size that had acquired chromosomal sequences from the oxytetracycline biosynthesis cluster.
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- B Gravius
- LB Genetik, Universität Kaiserslautern, Federal Republic of Germany
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Piendl W, Eichenseer C, Viel P, Altenbuchner J, Cullum J. Analysis of putative DNA amplification genes in the element AUD1 of Streptomyces lividans 66. Mol Gen Genet 1994; 244:439-43. [PMID: 8078470 DOI: 10.1007/bf00286697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The amplifiable AUD1 element of Streptomyces lividans 66 consists of two copies of a 4.7 kb sequence flanked by three copies of a 1 kb sequence. The DNA sequences of the three 1 kb repeats were determined. Two copies (left and middle repeats) were identical: (1009 bp in length) and the right repeat was 1012 bp long and differed at 63 positions. The repeats code for open reading frames (ORFs) with typical Streptomyces codon usage, which would encode proteins of about 36 kD molecular weight. The sequences of these ORFs suggest that they specify DNA-binding proteins and potential palindromic binding sites are found adjacent to the genes. The putative amplification protein encoded by the right repeat was expressed in Escherichia coli.
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- W Piendl
- Institut für medizinische Chemie und Biochemie, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
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Gluconobacter oxydans ATCC 9937, which produces 2,5-diketogluconic acid, an intermediate in vitamin C synthesis, has three plasmids of sizes 27.7 kb (pVJ1), 12.3 kb (pVJ2) and 18 kb (pVJ4). A restriction map was constructed of pVJ1. A potential glucose dehydrogenase gene was located on pVJ1 using the polymerase chain reaction with heterologous primers. Two other G. oxydans strains had no detectable plasmid DNA (IFO 12258) and a plasmid (pVJ3) of 9.4 kb (IFO 3293), respectively.
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- V Verma
- Genetic Engineering Unit, C.S.I.R., Jammu-Tawi, India
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Gravius B, Cullum J, Hranueli D. High G + C-content DNA markers for pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. Biotechniques 1994; 16:52. [PMID: 8136139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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- B Gravius
- Universität Kaiserslautern, Kaiserlautern, FRG
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The presence of a single plasmid 8.5 kb in size has been demonstrated in a cholesterol biotransforming strain of Micrococcus. A detailed physical map of the plasmid has been constructed using various restriction enzymes. Streptomycin resistance has been localized on a 1.8-kb fragment of pMQV10.
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- V Verma
- Genetic Engineering Unit, C.S.I.R., Jammu-Tawi, India
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Redenbach M, Flett F, Piendl W, Glocker I, Rauland U, Wafzig O, Kliem R, Leblond P, Cullum J. The Streptomyces lividans 66 chromosome contains a 1 MB deletogenic region flanked by two amplifiable regions. Mol Gen Genet 1993; 241:255-62. [PMID: 8246878 DOI: 10.1007/bf00284676] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Genetic instability in Streptomyces species often involves large deletions sometimes accompanied by DNA amplification. Two such systems in Streptomyces lividans 66 involve the production of mutants sensitive to chloramphenicol and the production of mutants resistant to the galactose analogue 2-deoxygalactose, respectively. Overlapping cosmids were isolated that span the ca. 1 Mb region between the two amplifiable regions. The structure of the region was confirmed by restriction mapping using the rarely cutting enzymes AseI, BfrI and DraI and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. The region contains a non-clonable gap flanked by inverted repeats; the structure is consistent with the presence of a physical gap, i.e. a linear chromosome.
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- M Redenbach
- Lehrbereich Genetik, Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Rausch H, Vesligaj M, Pocta D, Biuković G, Pigac J, Cullum J, Schmieger H, Hranueli D. The temperate phages RP2 and RP3 of Streptomyces rimosus. J Gen Microbiol 1993; 139:2517-24. [PMID: 8254321 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-139-10-2517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The oxytetracycline-producing Streptomyces rimosus strains R6-65 and R7 (ATCC 10970) are lysogenic for the two narrow-host-range phages RP2 and RP3. Both phages are released at low frequency from the lysogenic strains and form plaques on 'cured' S. rimosus strains. RP2 and RP3 are of similar shape with flexible tails and contain double-stranded DNA of about 70% G+C with cohesive ends (group B1 of bacteriophage classification). The two phages also have identical, very slow, growth kinetics in S. rimosus, with a latent phase of about 6 h and a rise period of about 4 h. RP2 and RP3 are heteroimmune and they differ slightly in their size of phage particles and length of DNA (64.7 and 62.4 kb for RP2 and RP3, respectively). The restriction maps of the two phages are completely different, and hybridization experiments showed only one short region of sequence similarity (less than 430 bp); the two phages are thus essentially unrelated. Both phages lysogenize their hosts by recombination via defined attachment (att) sites. The positions of the attP sites have been localized on the restriction maps of RP2 and RP3 to restriction fragments of 800 and 300 bp, respectively. The prophages did not affect the level of oxytetracycline production or the genetic instability of this trait.
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- H Rausch
- Institut für Genetik und Mikrobiologie, Universität München, Federal Republic of Germany
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During a strain selection program to improve oxytetracycline production in Streptomyces rimosus R6, isolates that showed extreme morphological instability appeared. Propagation via spores gave much higher instability than did propagation via mycelial fragments. Five phenotypic traits were affected: sporulation, pigmentation, colony morphology, oxytetracycline production, and oxytetracycline resistance. The variants were classified on the basis of oxytetracycline resistance into three classes. Class I variants (99% of variants) showed parental levels of resistance but were very heterogeneous regarding the other phenotypes. No DNA rearrangements were detected in primary class I variants. Class II variants (1% of variants, oxytetracycline sensitive) were phenotypically uniform, and most variants carried the same large deletion of ca. 455 kb, including the oxytetracycline resistance gene otrB. Class III variants (0.1% of variants, increased oxytetracycline resistance) were phenotypically uniform and overproduced a brown pigment and oxytetracycline. Most of these variants also showed a reproducible large-scale DNA rearrangement, which probably included deletion and a low-level reiteration (three or four copies) of a DNA fragment. "Revertants" of some class I variants show a similar DNA rearrangement to the class III variants, but there is extensive reiteration of sequences of about 200 kb, including the otrB gene. The significance of these results for the problem of strain degeneration and overproduction of antibiotics is discussed.
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Leblond P, Redenbach M, Cullum J. Physical map of the Streptomyces lividans 66 genome and comparison with that of the related strain Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). J Bacteriol 1993; 175:3422-9. [PMID: 8501047 PMCID: PMC204741 DOI: 10.1128/jb.175.11.3422-3429.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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A physical map of the chromosome of Streptomyces lividans 66 ZX7 was constructed by ordering the macrorestriction fragments generated from the genomic DNA with the restriction enzymes AseI and DraI. AseI and DraI linking cosmids (i.e., recombinant cosmids including either AseI or DraI sites) were isolated from a gene bank and used as hybridization probes against Southern transfers of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) restriction patterns. The DraI sites were precisely mapped by PFGE analyses of AseI-DraI double digests and hybridization with the AseI junctions. The 16 AseI and 7 DraI fragments were aligned as a single chromosome of about 8,000 kb. The data supported the interpretation that the chromosome is a linear structure. The related strain Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) M145, recently mapped by H. Kieser, T. Kieser, and D. A. Hopwood (J. Bacteriol. 174:5496-5507, 1992), was compared with S. lividans at the level of the genomic structure by hybridizing the linking cosmids to Southern transfers of PFGE patterns. In spite of little apparent similarity in their restriction patterns, the comparison of the physical maps revealed a common structure with an identical ordering of the cosmid sequences. This conservation of the map order was further confirmed by assigning genetic markers (i.e., cloned genes and DNA elements relevant to the unstable region) to the AseI fragments.
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- P Leblond
- LB Genetik der Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
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We have developed a system for the introduction and maintenance of novel tandem repeats in the chromosome of Streptomyces lividans 66. This was achieved by introducing, via transformation, Escherichia coli "suicide" vectors carrying manipulated S. lividans DNA fragments. Selection for antibiotic resistance markers carried on such plasmids permitted the isolation and maintenance of mutant strains containing novel tandem repeats formed by the integration into the chromosome of the plasmids, via homologous recombination between plasmid-borne chromosomal sequences and identical sequences on the chromosome. When novel repeats were introduced, and maintained, in regions of the chromosome which become deleted in unstable strains of S. lividans, those deletion events were blocked. Surprisingly, such strains were also 10 to 20-fold more stable than the parent even in the absence of selection. In stable regions of the chromosome, the maintenance of novel repeats had no obvious effect on the deletion events. This strategy could be generally applicable to industrial strains of Streptomyces, where instability is a common problem.
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- P Kaiser
- Department of Biochemistry and Applied Molecular Biology, UMIST, Manchester, UK
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Ali-Dunkrah U, Kendall K, Cullum J. Spontaneous mutations in the galactose operons of Streptomyces coelicolor A3 (2) and Streptomyces lividans 66. J Basic Microbiol 1990; 30:307-12. [PMID: 2213532 DOI: 10.1002/jobm.3620300502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Mutations can be divided into two classes: point mutations (base changes, frame shifts) and DNA rearrangements (deletions, insertions, inversions etc.). In Escherichia coli K 12, DNA insertions account for up to 40% of spontaneous mutations that inactivate genes (for review, see CULLUM 1985) and the Insertion Sequences involved can also mediate deletions and inversions. We started to study spontaneous mutations in Streptomyces in the expectation of isolating transposable elements and chose the galactose genes as convenient system. When selection is made for resistance to the galactose analogue 2-deoxygalactose (2dgalR), gal K mutants are obtained that are defective in the enzyme galactokinase (Kendall et al. 1987). We isolated spontaneous 2dgalR mutations in the closely related strain S. coelicolor A 3 (2) and S. lividans 66 and cloned the gal K gene of the former strain. Adams et al. (1988) have cloned and sequenced the gal genes of S. lividans 66 and shown that they form an operon, the restriction map appears to be identical to that of S. coelicolor A 3 (2). In this paper we describe the characterisation of spontaneous 2 dgalR mutants in S. coelicolor A 3 (2) and S. lividans 66.
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- U Ali-Dunkrah
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Cullum J, Flett F, Piendl W. Genetic instability in streptomycetes. Microbiol Sci 1988; 5:233-5. [PMID: 3079185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Genetic instability is very common in Streptomyces species and is usually due to large chromosomal deletions. In the case of Streptomyces lividans 66, instability can be separated into two steps, each of which involves deletion of over 200 kb of DNA. Extreme DNA amplification often accompanies deletion and in S. lividans 66 this property has been used to amplify cloned genes to obtain stable high-copy-number derivatives.
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- J Cullum
- LB Genetik der Universität Kaiserslautern, FRG
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SummaryWe constructed a cloning vector (pMT603) based on the low copy number plasmid SCP2*. pMT6O3 is unstable because it lacks the SCP2* stability region and carries the selectable marker thiostrepton-resistance and a tyrosinase gene which results in melanin production. This allows easy testing of plasmid stability and we demonstrated its usefulness by cloning a plasmid stability function.
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Flett F, Cullum J. DNA deletions in spontaneous chloramphenicol-sensitive mutants of Streptomyces coelicolor A 3(2) and Streptomyces lividans 66. Mol Gen Genet 1987; 207:499-502. [PMID: 3475527 DOI: 10.1007/bf00331621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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A mutant of Streptomyces coelicolor A 3(2) highly resistant to chloramphenicol was selected. It had amplified some chromosomal DNA fragments to a copy number of 20-50. Some of the amplified fragments were cloned and used as hybridisation probes to investigate the spontaneous chloramphenicol-sensitive mutants which occur at high frequency in this species and the closely related species Streptomyces lividans 66. These investigations demonstrated that chloramphenicol sensitivity in both species is associated with large deletions that are at least 40 kb in length.
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Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) and Streptomyces lividans 66 strains were shown to be sensitive to the galactose analogue 2-deoxy-D-galactose. Spontaneous resistant mutants were isolated that were Gal- and lacked the enzyme galactokinase. The galK gene (structural gene for galactokinase) from S. coelicolor was cloned into S. lividans using the low copy number vector pIJ922. The resulting plasmid (pMT650), which contained a 14 kb insert, complemented gal mutations in both species. The presence of the galK gene on a 2.8 kb EcoRI fragment was confirmed by expressing it in Escherichia coli where it complemented a well characterized galK mutation.
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- K Kendall
- Department of Biochemistry and Applied Molecular Biology, University of Manchester, UK
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Recent advances in our understanding of the structure of highly amplified DNA sequences in Streptomyces fradiae and lividans have enabled us to formulate a possible mechanism by which amplification may occur. An essential feature of the model is the generation of an amplification precursor, which comprises a circularised copy of the DNA to be amplified, attached to one arm of the chromosome by a replication fork. Multiple copies of the amplifiable DNA are generated by rolling circle replication. The model adequately accounts for many features of gene amplification in these two species, including the tendency for deletions to occur to one side, but not the other, of the amplified DNA.
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Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) gives rise to spontaneous chloramphenicol sensitive mutants at a frequency of about 0.3% per spore. These mutants are often genetically unstable and give rise to arginine auxotrophs (Arg-) at frequencies of 1-7% per spore. These Arg- mutants usually lack the enzyme argininosuccinate synthetase (one exception was found that lacked ornithine carbamoyltransferase) and were shown to have deleted the corresponding argG gene by hybridisation analysis using a cloned S. cattleya argG gene. The Arg- strains also showed a variety of different DNA amplification and deletion events in a region homologous to an amplified DNA sequence found in spontaneous Arg- mutants in S. lividans 66.
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Genetic instability is very common in Streptomyces species, but only affects specific genes in any one strain. It sometimes occurs at high frequency spontaneously, but may be stimulated by treatments such as UV irradiation or intercalating agents. Deletion of genes occurs and may be accompanied by DNA amplifications. It is unlikely that there is plasmid involvement in most cases. Little is yet known about the molecular mechanisms of deletion and DNA amplification. Genetic instability can be a problem during commercial antibiotic production. DNA amplification of cloned genes is potentially useful for achieving both stability and high gene dosage.
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Metzlaff M, Troebner W, Baldauf F, Schlegel R, Cullum J. Wheat specific repetitive DNA sequences - construction and characterization of four different genomic clones. Theor Appl Genet 1986; 72:207-210. [PMID: 24247835 DOI: 10.1007/bf00266993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/1985] [Accepted: 12/03/1985] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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The construction and molecular analysis of four recombinant clones - pTa1, pTa2, pTa7, and pTa8 - is described. The four clones contain different highly repeated sequences of genomic DNA from Triticum aestivum variety 'Chinese Spring'. The wheat specificity has been determined by colony and dot blot hybridization in comparison with total rye DNA (Secale cereale variety 'Petka'). The four clones with a variable degree of specificity were compared by sequence analysis after the recloning of wheat DNA inserts into M13 mp8. Within the sequencing data a tendency can be observed that those repeated sequences which show the highest degree of species specificity contain a significantly increased amount of GC residues.
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- M Metzlaff
- Wissenschaftsbereich Genetik der Sektion Biowissenschaften der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, GDR-4020, Halle/Saale, German Democratic Republic
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Kendall K, Cullum J. Identification of a DNA sequence associated with plasmid integration in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2). Mol Gen Genet 1986; 202:240-5. [PMID: 3010046 DOI: 10.1007/bf00331643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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We identified a DNA element of length about 1 kb that is present in two copies in the chromosome of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) and is also present on the plasmid SCP1 which has been carefully defined genetically, but never isolated as extrachromosomal DNA. A copy of the element is close (within 5 kb) of a gene coding for an extracellular agarase in the chromosome of S. coelicolor A3(2) and in an NF strain, in which SCP1 has integrated into the chromosome, the agarase gene has been deleted. The element has properties reminiscent of Insertion Sequences in Escherichia coli, but it is not yet know if it can transpose.
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Spontaneous chloramphenicol-sensitive mutants of Streptomyces lividans 66 had previously been shown to be very unstable and to yield arginine auxotrophic mutants at a frequency of 25% of spores; the Arg- mutants had amplified a particular 5.7 kb DNA sequence to over one hundred tandem copies per genome. In this paper we report the cloning of the amplifiable region from amplified and wild-type strains. This showed that the amplifiable fragment is already present as a duplication in wild type cells. Hybridisation experiments also demonstrated that in the amplified strains there was a deletion of neighbouring DNA sequences to one side of the amplifiable element; sequences to the other side remain intact.
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DNA from the Streptomyces plasmid pIJ702 was mutagenized in vitro using hydroxylamine and transformed into Streptomyces lividans. One plasmid with temperature-sensitive replication (pMT660) and one plasmid with a temperature-sensitive tyrosinase (pMT661) were isolated. The plasmid pMT661 contains a novel PstI restriction endonuclease site within the tyrosinase gene.
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An extracellular agarase gene was cloned from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) strain M130 into S. lividans 66 using the multicopy plasmid vector pIJ702. Various deletion derivatives of the initial clone (pMT605) were obtained by in vitro and in vivo methods. This allowed the gene to be localised to a 1.9-kb segment of DNA. The agarase enzyme was overproduced (up to 500 times) and exported efficiently into the medium. The agarase protein was identified as a 28-kDal band after sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE); in the case of one derivative, pMT608, this band accounted for nearly 50% of the total extracellular protein. Differences in agarase production between the deletion derivatives correlated well with plasmid stability.
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Streptomyces lividans 66 produced spontaneous chloramphenicol-sensitive mutants (CmlS) at a frequency of about 1% of spores. The CmlS mutant strains were very unstable, giving Arg- mutants at frequencies of about 25% of spores. All the Arg- mutants had amplified a particular 5.75 kb DNA fragment into tandem repeats of 250-500 copies per chromosome.
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Brahma N, Schumacher A, Cullum J, Saedler H. Distribution of the Escherichia coli K12 insertion sequences IS1, IS2 and IS3 among other bacterial species. J Gen Microbiol 1982; 128:2229-34. [PMID: 6296271 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-128-10-2229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Cornelis G, Meier U, Hoeksma G, Ghosal D, Cullum J, Saedler H. The lactose transposon Tn951: characterization of transposition. Ann Microbiol (Paris) 1980; 131:233-47. [PMID: 6252805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Transposition of the lactose transposon Tn951 was found to still occur in the absence of its original host plasmid pGC1. Transposition was recA-independent. These results show that Tn951 is indeed a transposon. A computer program was developed to facilitate mapping of transposon integration sites in plasmids from restriction data.
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The Gal+ allele IS2-43 is known to segregate Gal- clones. Among 11 Gal- segregants, one was shown to be due to the integration of IS3 into IS2-43. Precise excision of the integrated IS3 element occurred at a rate of 5 x 10(-9)/cell/generation. DNA sequence analysis revealed that the termini of the IS3 element have the relation of imperfect inverted repeats and it is now flanked by a 3bp or 4bp duplication, a size which has not been seen before with other elements.
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Sommer H, Cullum J, Saedler H. IS2-43 and IS2-44: new alleles of the insertion sequence IS2 which have promoter activity. Mol Gen Genet 1979; 175:53-6. [PMID: 390307 DOI: 10.1007/bf00267855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The sequence of two new IS2 alleles with promoter activity (IS2-43 and IS2-44) is reported. The alleles are identical and are formed by a 17 bp tandem duplication in an AT-rich region of IS2. This created a new RNA polymerase binding site. A mutation was found that increased the frequency of formation of these 17 bp duplications but not of another class of duplications, the "mini-insertions". This suggested that the mechanisms of formation of the two classes of duplications are different.
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We studied recipient mating ability in the presence of excess F'lac donors. Ninety-five percent of recipients were able to receive F'lac in 30-min matings. Competition between an F'-lac donor and an F'lac traI donor, which mobilized a ColE1 derivative (pML2), showed that each recipient mated with an average of two to three donors in 30 min. Experiments in which the competing donor was added at different times showed that some competition occurred throughout the 30-min mating period, which suggested that aggregate formation was spread over this time.
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The length growth rate of an exponentially growing population of Escherichia coli B/r was calculated from the population length and birth length distributions. Cell elongation took place at a constant rate that doubled at a certain length. This change in rate was responsible for a sudden drop in the frequency of classes of cells longer than that length. Asymmetry in cell partition was able to generate cells both shorter and longer than the expected twofold range, but did not greatly modify the length distribution in between.
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