Duplication of insertion element IS50 associated with Tn5 transposition in Azospirillum brasilense

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Tripathi, AK [1 ]
Tripathi, R
Ganguli, A
Bazzicalupo, M
机构
[1] Banaras Hindu Univ, Fac Sci, Sch Biotechnol, Lab Bacterial Genet, Varanasi 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India
[2] Univ Florence, Dept Anim Biol & Genet, I-50125 Florence, Italy
关键词
Tn5; IS50; Azospirillum brasilense; recombinant DNA;
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10.1139/cjm-44-11-1110
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The characterization of a DNA fragment with a Tn5 insertion in a regulatory nif gene of Azospirillum brasilense is reported. Restriction endonuclease mapping, Southern hybridization with a Tn5 probe, and nucleotide sequencing revealed that IS50 had duplicated in Tn5. The duplication of an IS50 element suggests the occurrence of a replicative mechanism of transposition. A strategy, based on the bacterial ability of homologous recombination that was used to precisely eliminate Tn5 along with the duplicated IS50 element, is presented.
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