Yamamoto T, Tanaka M, Nohara C, Fukunaga Y, Yamagishi S
J Bacteriol. 1981 Feb;145(2):808-13. doi: 10.1128/jb.145.2.808-813.1981.
We have found that the oxacillin-hydrolyzing penicillinase gene (oxa) encoded by plasmid RGN238 transposes to various plasmids in a recA background. We call this transposable element Tn2603. Tn2603 encodes the genes for streptomycin, sulfonamide, and mercury resistance in addition to the oxa gene. Tn2603 has a molecular size of 19.6 kilobase pairs and appears to be flanked by small inverted repeat sequences of about 200 base pairs long.
我们发现,质粒RGN238编码的水解苯唑西林的青霉素酶基因(oxa)在recA背景下可转移至各种质粒。我们将这种转座元件称为Tn2603。除oxa基因外,Tn2603还编码链霉素、磺胺和汞抗性基因。Tn2603的分子大小为19.6千碱基对,其两侧似乎是约200个碱基对长的小反向重复序列。