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J. Bacteriol., Jun 1996, 3374-3376, Vol 178, No. 11
Copyright © 1996, American Society for Microbiology

The sre gene (ORF469) encodes a site-specific recombinase responsible for integration of the R4 phage genome

M Matsuura, T Noguchi, D Yamaguchi, T Aida, M Asayama, H Takahashi and M Shirai
Division of Biotechnology, School of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Japan.

The sre gene (ORF469) of the R4 phage encodes a protein similar to the resolvase-DNA invertase family proteins. Insertional gene disruption of sre prevented a lysogen from entering the lytic cycle, implying that Sre protein is a site-specific recombinase needed for excision of the R4 prophage genome (M. Matsuura, T. Noguchi, T. Aida, M. Asayama, H. Takahashi, and M. Shirai, J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. 41:53-61, 1995). To determine whether this sre gene is also necessary for the integration reaction, we studied its function by integration plasmid analysis. When deletions, frameshifts, and site-directed mutations that caused an amino acid substitution of Ser-17 for Ala were introduced into the sre structural gene, transformation efficiency of Streptomyces parvulus 2297 with these plasmid DNAs was severely reduced. However, an adenine insertion just before the possible initiation codon of the sre gene did not significantly decrease the efficiency. These data suggest that the Sre protein is a site-specific recombinase responsible for integration of the R4 phage genome.

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