Das Rasel, Shimamoto Tadashi, Arifuzzaman Md
Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Science and Technology Chittagong (USTC), Foy's Lake, Chittagong 4202, Bangladesh.
J Pathog. 2011;2011:693769. doi: 10.4061/2011/693769. Epub 2011 Nov 17.
Retron is a retroelement that encodes msDNA (multicopy single-stranded DNA) which was significantly found mainly in Gram-negative pathogenic bacteria. We screened Yersinia frederiksenii ATCC 33641 contig01029 for the presence of retroelement by using bioinformatics tools and characterized a novel retron-Yf79 on the chromosome that encodes msDNA-Yf79. In this study, we perceived that, the codon usage of retron-Yf79 were noteworthy different from those of the Y. frederiksenii genome. It demonstrates that, the retron-Yf79 was a foreign DNA element and integrated into this organism genome during their evolution. In addition to this, we have observed a transposase gene which is located just downstream of retron-Yf79. So, the enzyme might be responsible for the transposition of this novel retron element.
反转录子是一种编码多拷贝单链DNA(msDNA)的反转录元件,主要在革兰氏阴性病原菌中大量发现。我们使用生物信息学工具筛选了弗氏耶尔森菌ATCC 33641的重叠群01029中反转录元件的存在情况,并鉴定了一个位于染色体上的新型反转录子Yf79,它编码msDNA-Yf79。在本研究中,我们发现,反转录子Yf79的密码子使用情况与弗氏耶尔森菌基因组的密码子使用情况显著不同。这表明,反转录子Yf79是一种外来DNA元件,在其进化过程中整合到了该生物体的基因组中。除此之外,我们还观察到一个转座酶基因,它位于反转录子Yf79的下游。因此,这种酶可能负责这种新型反转录元件的转座。