Hasselmayer Oliver, Braun Veit, Nitsche Claudia, Moos Michael, Rupnik Maja, von Eichel-Streiber Christoph
Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, D-55101 Mainz, Germany.
J Bacteriol. 2004 Apr;186(8):2508-10. doi: 10.1128/JB.186.8.2508-2510.2004.
Screening a Clostridium difficile strain collection for the chimeric element CdISt1, we identified two additional variants, designated CdISt1-0 and CdISt1-III. In in vitro assays, we could prove the self-splicing ribozyme activity of these variants. Structural comparison of all known CdISt1 variants led us to define four types of IStrons that we designated CdISt1-0 through CdISt1-III. Since CdISt1-0 encodes two complete transposase-like proteins (TlpA and TlpB), we suggest that it represents the original genetic element, hypothesized before to have originated by fusion of a group I intron and an insertion sequence element.
在艰难梭菌菌株库中筛选嵌合元件CdISt1时,我们鉴定出另外两个变体,命名为CdISt1-0和CdISt1-III。在体外试验中,我们能够证明这些变体的自我剪接核酶活性。对所有已知CdISt1变体的结构比较使我们定义了四种内含子类型,我们将其命名为CdISt1-0至CdISt1-III。由于CdISt1-0编码两种完整的转座酶样蛋白(TlpA和TlpB),我们认为它代表了原始遗传元件,之前推测它是由I组内含子和插入序列元件融合产生的。