Excision of IS492 requires flanking target sequences and results in circle formation in Pseudoalteromonas atlantica.
Excision of IS492 requires flanking target sequences and results in circle formation in Pseudoalteromonas atlantica.
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IS492 的切除需要侧翼靶序列并导致大西洋假交替单胞菌中环的形成。
DOI:
10.1128/jb.181.16.4937-4948.1999
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发表时间:
1999
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Glasgow,AC
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作者:
Perkins-Balding,D;Duval-Valentin,G;Glasgow,AC
The gram-negative marine bacteriumPseudoalteromonas atlanticaproduces extracellular polysaccharide (EPS) that is important in biofilm formation by this bacterium. Insertion and precise excision of IS492at a locus essential for extracellular polysaccharide production (eps) controls phase variation of EPS production inP. atlantica. Examination of IS492transposition inP. atlanticaby using a PCR-based assay revealed a circular form of IS492that may be an intermediate in transposition or a terminal product of excision. The DNA sequence of the IS492circle junction indicates that the ends of the element are juxtaposed with a 5-bp spacer sequence. This spacer sequence corresponds to the 5-bp duplication of the chromosomal target sequence found at all IS492insertion sites on theP. atlanticachromosome that we identified by using inverse PCR. IS492circle formation correlated with precise excision of IS492from theP. atlantica epstarget sequence when introduced intoEscherichia colion a plasmid. Deletion analyses of the flanking host sequences at theepsinsertion site for IS492demonstrated that the 5-bp duplicated target sequence is essential for precise excision of IS492and circle formation inE. coli. Excision of IS492inE. colialso depends on the level of expression of the putative transposase, MooV. A regulatory role for the circular form of IS492is suggested by the creation of a new strong promoter for expression ofmooVby the joining of the ends of the insertion sequence element at the circle junction.