Journal of Bacteriology, July 1999, p. 4185-4192, Vol. 181, No. 14
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Institute for Molecular
Genetics1 and Institute for Biochemistry
and Protein Research,4 Agricultural
Biotechnology Center, Gödöll
, H-2100 Hungary;
Department of Biotechnology and Molecular Genetics,
Gödöll
University of Agricultural Sciences,
Gödöll
, H-2105 Hungary2; and
Max-Planck Institut für Zuchtungsforschung, D-50829
Cologne, Germany3
Received 29 December 1998/Accepted 4 May 1999
Phage 16-3 is a temperate phage of Rhizobium meliloti 41 which integrates its genome with high efficiency into the host chromosome by site-specific recombination through DNA sequences of attB and attP. Here we report the identification of two phage-encoded genes required for recombinations at these sites: int (phage integration) and xis (prophage excision). We concluded that Int protein of phage 16-3 belongs to the integrase family of tyrosine recombinases. Despite similarities to the cognate systems of the lambdoid phages, the 16-3 int xis att system is not active in Escherichia coli, probably due to requirements for host factors that differ in Rhizobium meliloti and E. coli. The application of the 16-3 site-specific recombination system in biotechnology is discussed.
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