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Stabilized non-complementing diploids (Ncd) from fused protoplast products of B. subtilis.

Non-complementing diploids (Ncd) displaying the parental phenotype can be selected from polyethylene glycol (PEG)-treated fused polyauxotrophic protoplasts of Bacillus subtilis. These bacteria carry the two parental genomes, but only one of them is phenotypically expressed, the other being replicated but not expressed. Cellular cloning and DNA-DNA in situ hybridization led to the discovery of non-complementing diploid cells which at first sight could have been considered as parental haploids. The new class of stabilized Ncd (10(-7) segregants) can be obtained either directly after the primary fusion event or from segregating Ncd after further growth. The totally inactive chromosome of a stable Ncd can be activated after PEG-induced self fusion. DNA-mediated transformation studies using crude stable Ncd lysates as DNA donors show low frequencies for the genetic markers from the 'silent' chromosome. Contrary to the unstable Ncd situation, however, these frequencies remain low even with purified donor DNA. The differences in the transformation properties of the non-expressed markers are correlated to Ncd clone stability. These facts suggest that chromosome inactivation in PEG-induced fusion involves at least a two-stage process. The first would be reversible and the second irreversible, thus preserving the inactive chromosome state.[1]

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