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J Bacteriol. 1994 September; 176(17): 5202-5209

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Sequence divergence in the ORF6 gene of Mycoplasma pneumonia.

Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

ABSTRACT

The ORF6 gene product of Mycoplasma pneumoniae is involved in a yet-unknown manner in the adhesion of the bacterium to its host cell. Part of the ORF6 gene is a repetitive DNA sequence (RepMP5), about 1,900 bp long. Seven additional similar copies of RepMP5 are dispersed on the genome. In the independently isolated strains M. pneumoniae M129 and FH, the RepMP5 copies residing in the ORF6 gene are not identical. Two conserved regions, ranging from nucleotides 1 to 799 and from nucleotide 1795 to the end of the gene, border a variable region, ranging from nucleotides 800 to 1794. This variable region differs in DNA sequence and by 201 bp. Analysis of RepMP5 copies outside the ORF6 gene showed that both M. pneumoniae M129 and M. pneumoniae FH carry a RepMP5 copy on a 6-kbp EcoRI fragment which has the same DNA sequence as the variable region of RepMP5 in the M. pneumoniae FH ORF6 gene. According to these data, a switch from the M. pneumoniae M129 ORF6 gene to the M. pneumoniae FH ORF6 gene could take place by gene conversion.

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