Komano T, Kim S R, Nisioka T
Department of Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan.
J Bacteriol. 1987 Nov;169(11):5317-9. doi: 10.1128/jb.169.11.5317-5319.1987.
A shufflon or clustered inversion is a novel type of DNA rearrangement originally discovered in the IncI1 plasmid R64 (T. Komano, A. Kubo, and T. Nisioka, Nucleic Acids Res. 15:1165-1172, 1987). In a 1.95-kilobase region of R64 DNA, four DNA segments inverted independently or in groups, resulting in a complex DNA rearrangement. We found similar types of shufflon in other IncI1 plasmids, including delta, pIP111, pIP565, pIP112, pIP186, R144, R163, R483, and R621a. A variant type of shufflon occurs in the IncI1 plasmid ColIb.
重排单元或成簇倒位是一种新型的DNA重排,最初在IncI1质粒R64中发现(T. 小间野、A. 久保、T. 西冈,《核酸研究》15:1165 - 1172,1987年)。在R64 DNA的一个1.95千碱基区域内,四个DNA片段独立或成组地发生倒位,导致复杂的DNA重排。我们在其他IncI1质粒中发现了类似类型的重排单元,包括δ、pIP111、pIP565、pIP112、pIP186、R144、R163、R483和R621a。一种变异类型的重排单元出现在IncI1质粒ColIb中。