Zymomonas mobilis plasmid pZMO3, equivalent to pZM2 the complete nucleotide sequence of which has been published (Misawa and Nakamura, 1989), expressed mobilisation functions in
Escherichia coli JM83 and RR1 when fused to the HindIII site of pUC19. Experimental evidence based on filter mating and DNA sequence analysis supports that an ORF of pZMO3 coding for a 66 kd protein should be responsible for self-mobilisation ability.