A large inversion in the linear chromosome of Streptomyces griseus caused by replicative transposition of a new Tn3 family transposon

Autor: M. Murata, Alexander Lezhava, Tetsuya Uchida, Haruyasu Kinashi, Yingjie Yang
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Archives of Microbiology. 193:299-306
ISSN: 1432-072X
0302-8933
DOI: 10.1007/s00203-010-0674-5
Popis: We have comprehensively analyzed the linear chromosomes of Streptomyces griseus mutants constructed and kept in our laboratory. During this study, macrorestriction analysis of AseI and DraI fragments of mutant 402-2 suggested a large chromosomal inversion. The junctions of chromosomal inversion were cloned and sequenced and compared with the corresponding target sequences in the parent strain 2247. Consequently, a transposon-involved mechanism was revealed. Namely, a transposon originally located at the left target site was replicatively transposed to the right target site in an inverted direction, which generated a second copy and at the same time caused a 2.5-Mb chromosomal inversion. The involved transposon named TnSGR was grouped into a new subfamily of the resolvase-encoding Tn3 family transposons based on its gene organization. At the end, terminal diversity of S. griseus chromosomes is discussed by comparing the sequences of strains 2247 and IFO13350.
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