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J Bacteriol. 1990 July; 172(7): 3830-3836

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Site-specific transposition of insertion sequence IS630.

Institute of Applied Microbiology, University of Tokyo, Japan.

ABSTRACT

IS630 is a 1.15-kilobase sequence in Shigella sonnei that, unlike many mobile elements, seems not to mediate cointegration between different replicons. To assess its transposition, we constructed composite elements containing inverted copies of IS630 flanking a drug resistance gene. We found that these composite elements transposed to plasmid ColE1 in Escherichia coli. DNA sequencing showed that transposition was, in all cases, to the dinucleotide sequence 5'-TA-3'. There were two preferred insertion sites which corresponded to the TA sequences in the inverted repeats of a 13-base-pair stem region of the [rho]-dependent transcription terminator. IS630 is flanked by TA, and nucleotide substitution by in vitro mutagenesis at these ends did not affect transposition activity of a composite element or its ability to insert preferentially into TA within the 13-base-pair inverted repeat sequences or to duplicate the target sequence.

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