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2. Region-specific insertion of transposons in combination with selection for high plasmid transferability and stability accounts for the structural similarity of IncP-1 plasmids.
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Sota M, Tsuda M, Yano H, Suzuki H, Forney LJ, and Top EM
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- Base Sequence, Binding Sites genetics, Genes, Bacterial genetics, Molecular Sequence Data, DNA Transposable Elements genetics, DNA, Bacterial genetics, Escherichia coli genetics, Plasmids genetics
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The overall architecture of IncP-1 plasmids is very conserved in that the accessory genes are typically located in one or two specific regions: between oriV and trfA and between the tra and trb operons. Various hypotheses have been formulated to explain this, but none have been tested experimentally. We investigated whether this structural similarity is due to region-specific transposition alone or also is reliant on selection for plasmids with insertions limited to these two regions. We first examined the transposition of Tn21Km into IncP-1beta plasmid pBP136 and found that most Tn21Km insertions (67%) were located around oriV. A similar experiment using the oriV region of IncP-1beta plasmid pUO1 confirmed these results. We then tested the transferability, stability, and fitness cost of different pBP136 derivatives to determine if impairment of these key plasmid characters explained the conserved plasmid architecture. Most of the pBP136 derivatives with insertions in transfer genes were no longer transferable. The plasmids with insertions in the oriV-trfA and tra-trb regions were more stable than other plasmid variants, and one of these also showed a significantly lower fitness cost. In addition, our detailed sequence analysis of IncP-1 plasmids showed that Tn402/5053-like transposons are situated predominantly between the tra and trb operons and close to the putative resolution site for the ParA resolvase, a potential hot spot for those transposons. Our study presents the first empirical evidence that region-specific insertion of transposons in combination with selection for transferable and stable plasmids explains the structural similarity of IncP-1 plasmids.
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- 2007
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3. Genomic and functional analysis of the IncP-9 naphthalene-catabolic plasmid NAH7 and its transposon Tn4655 suggests catabolic gene spread by a tyrosine recombinase.
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Sota M, Yano H, Ono A, Miyazaki R, Ishii H, Genka H, Top EM, and Tsuda M
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- Bacterial Proteins genetics, Base Sequence, Escherichia coli Proteins genetics, Escherichia coli Proteins metabolism, Gene Amplification, Genes, Bacterial, Molecular Sequence Data, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Recombinases genetics, Restriction Mapping, Bacterial Proteins metabolism, DNA Transposable Elements, Escherichia coli genetics, Naphthalenes metabolism, Plasmids, Recombinases metabolism
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The naphthalene-catabolic (nah) genes on the incompatibility group P-9 (IncP-9) self-transmissible plasmid NAH7 from Pseudomonas putida G7 are some of the most extensively characterized genetic determinants for bacterial aerobic catabolism of aromatic hydrocarbons. In contrast to the detailed studies of its catabolic cascade and enzymatic functions, the biological characteristics of plasmid NAH7 have remained unclear. Our sequence determination in this study together with the previously deposited sequences revealed the entire structure of NAH7 (82,232 bp). Comparison of NAH7 with two other completely sequenced IncP-9 catabolic plasmids, pDTG1 and pWW0, revealed that the three plasmids share very high nucleotide similarities in a 39-kb region encoding the basic plasmid functions (the IncP-9 backbone). The backbone of NAH7 is phylogenetically more related to that of pDTG1 than that of pWW0. These three plasmids carry their catabolic gene clusters at different positions on the IncP-9 backbone. All of the NAH7-specified nah genes are located on a class II transposon, Tn4655. Our analysis of the Tn4655-encoded site-specific recombination system revealed that (i) a novel tyrosine recombinase, TnpI, catalyzed both the intra- and intermolecular recombination between two copies of the attI site, (ii) the functional attI site was located within a 119-bp segment, and (iii) the site-specific strand exchange occurred within a 30-bp segment in the 41-bp CORE site. Our results and the sequence data of other naphthalene-catabolic plasmids, pDTG1 and pND6-1, suggest a potential role of the TnpI-attI recombination system in the establishment of these catabolic plasmids.
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- 2006
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4. Functional analysis of unique class II insertion sequence IS1071.
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Sota M, Yano H, Nagata Y, Ohtsubo Y, Genka H, Anbutsu H, Kawasaki H, and Tsuda M
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- Base Sequence, Betaproteobacteria growth & development, Molecular Sequence Data, Plasmids, Proteobacteria metabolism, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Terminal Repeat Sequences genetics, Transposases genetics, Betaproteobacteria genetics, Betaproteobacteria metabolism, DNA Transposable Elements, Proteobacteria genetics, Transposases metabolism
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Various xenobiotic-degrading genes on many catabolic plasmids are often flanked by two copies of an insertion sequence, IS1071. This 3.2-kb IS element has long (110-bp) terminal inverted repeats (IRs) and a transposase gene that are phylogenetically related to those of the class II transposons. However, the transposition mechanism of IS1071 has remained unclear. Our study revealed that IS1071 was only able to transpose at high frequencies in two environmental beta-proteobacterial strains, Comamonas testosteroni and Delftia acidovorans, and not in any of the bacteria examined which belong to the alpha- and gamma-proteobacteria. IS1071 was found to have the functional features of the class II transposons in that (i) the final product of the IS1071 transposition was a cointegrate of its donor and target DNA molecules connected by two directly repeated copies of IS1071, one at each junction; (ii) a 5-bp duplication of the target sequence was observed at the insertion site; and (iii) a tnpA mutation of IS1071 was efficiently complemented by supplying the wild-type tnpA gene in trans. Deletion analysis of the IS1071 IR sequences indicated that nearly the entire region of the IRs was required for its transposition, suggesting that the interaction between the transposase and IRs of IS1071 might be different from that of the other well-characterized class II transposons.
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- 2006
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5. Structure of haloacetate-catabolic IncP-1beta plasmid pUO1 and genetic mobility of its residing haloacetate-catabolic transposon.
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Sota M, Kawasaki H, and Tsuda M
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- Acetates chemistry, Bacterial Proteins genetics, Bacterial Proteins metabolism, Base Sequence, Biodegradation, Environmental, DNA, Bacterial genetics, Delftia drug effects, Delftia metabolism, Drug Resistance, Bacterial genetics, Escherichia coli genetics, Hydrolases metabolism, Mercury pharmacology, Mutation, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Transposon Resolvases genetics, Transposon Resolvases metabolism, Acetates metabolism, Conjugation, Genetic, DNA Transposable Elements genetics, Delftia genetics, Hydrolases genetics, Plasmids genetics
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The self-transmissible plasmid pUO1 from Delftia acidovorans strain B carries two haloacetate-catabolic transposons, TnHad1 and TnHad2, and the mer genes for resistance to mercury. The complete 67,066-bp sequence of pUO1 revealed that the mer genes were also carried by two Tn402/Tn5053-like transposons, Tn4671 and Tn4672, and that the pUO1 backbone regions shared 99% identity to those of the archetype IncP-1beta plasmid R751. Comparison of pUO1 with three other IncP-1beta plasmids illustrated the importance of transposon insertion in the diversity and evolution of this group of plasmids. Mutational analysis of the four outermost residues in the inverted repeats (IRs) of TnHad2, a Tn21-related transposon, revealed a crucial role of the second residue of its IRs in transposition.
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- 2003
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6. Characterization of a class II defective transposon carrying two haloacetate dehalogenase genes from Delftia acidovorans plasmid pUO1.
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Sota M, Endo M, Nitta K, Kawasaki H, and Tsuda M
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- Base Sequence, DNA, Bacterial analysis, Molecular Sequence Data, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Proteobacteria classification, Proteobacteria genetics, Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, DNA Transposable Elements genetics, Hydrolases genetics, Proteobacteria enzymology, Transposon Resolvases
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The two haloacetate dehalogenase genes, dehH1 and dehH2, on the 65-kb plasmid pUO1 from Delftia acidovorans strain B were found to be located on transposable elements. The dehH2 gene was carried on an 8.9-kb class I composite transposon (TnHad1) that was flanked by two directly repeated copies of IS1071, IS1071L and IS1071R. The dehH1 gene was also flanked by IS1071L and a truncated version of IS1071 (IS1071N). TnHad1, dehH1, and IS1071N were located on a 15.6-kb class II transposon (TnHad2) whose terminal inverted repeats and res site showed high homology with those of the Tn21-related transposons. TnHad2 was defective in transposition because of its lacking the transposase and resolvase genes. TnHad2 could transpose when the Tn21-encoded transposase and resolvase were supplied in trans. These results demonstrated that Tn Had2 is a defective Tn21-related transposon carrying another class I catabolic transposon.
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- 2002
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