Molecular genetics of the chloramphenicol‐resistance transposon Tn4451 from Clostridium perfringens: the TnpX site‐specific recombinase excises a circular transposon molecule

Molecular Microbiology - Tập 16 Số 3 - Trang 535-551 - 1995
Trudi L. Bannam1,2, Paul K. Crellin1, Julian I. Rood1
1Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Clayton 316S, Victoria, Australia.
2Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6076, USA

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Summary

The chloramphenicol‐resistance transposon Tn4451 undergoes precise conjugative deletion from its parent plasmid piP401 in Clostridium perfringens and precise spontaneous excision from multicopy plasmids in Escherichia coli. The complete nucleotide sequence of the 6338 bp transposon was determined and it was found to encode six genes. Genetic analysis demonstrated that the largest Tn4451‐encoded gene, tnpX, was required for the spontaneous excision of the transposon in both E. coli and C. perfringens, since a Tn4451 derivative that lacked a functional tnpX gene was completely stable in both organisms. Because the ability of this derivative to excise was restored by providing the tnpX gene on a compatible plasmid, it was concluded that this gene encoded a trans‐acting site‐specific recombinase. Allelic exchange was used to introduce the tnpXΔ allele onto plP401 and it was shown that TnpX was also required for the conjugative excision of Tn4451 in C. perfringens. It was also shown by hybridization and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) studies that TnpX‐mediated transposon excision resulted in the formation of a circular form of the transposon. The TnpX recombinase was unique because it potentially contained the motifs of two independent site‐specific recombinase families, namely the resolvase/invertase and integrase families. Sequence analysis indicated that the resolvase/invertase domain of TnpX was likely to be involved in the excision process by catalysing the formation of a 2bp staggered nick on either side of the GA dinucleotide located at the ends of the transposon and at the junction of the circular form. The other Tn4451‐encoded genes include tnpZ, which appears to encode a second potential site‐specific recombinase. This protein has similarity to plasmid‐encoded Mob/Pre proteins, which are involved in plasmid mobilization and multimer formation. Located upstream of the tnpZ gene was a region with similarity to the site of interaction of these mobilization proteins.

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Molecular Microbiology

Tập 16 Số 3

535-551

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