Jannière L, McGovern S, Pujol C, Petit M A, Ehrlich S D
Laboratoire de Génétique Microbienne, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Jouy en Josas, France.
Nucleic Acids Res. 1996 Sep 1;24(17):3431-6. doi: 10.1093/nar/24.17.3431.
The promiscuous plasmid pAM beta 1 from Gram-positive bacteria encodes a resolution system which differs from that of Tn3 in that (i) it requires a histone-like protein and an unusual resolvase-DNA interaction to promote recombination and (ii) it mediates in vivo DNA inversion in plasmid substrates. In this in vivo analysis, the pAM beta 1 resolution site is narrowed down to a 99 bp segment, the strand exchange is mapped within 10 bp and the serine residue at position 10 of the resolvase is shown to be essential for enzyme activity. In addition, data showing that the resolution system does not promote DNA inversion in the Bacillus subtilis chromosome are presented. Implications of this observation are discussed.
革兰氏阳性菌中的多拷贝质粒pAMβ1编码一种解离系统,该系统与Tn3的解离系统不同,具体表现为:(i)它需要一种类组蛋白和一种特殊的解离酶 - DNA相互作用来促进重组;(ii)它在质粒底物中介导体内DNA倒位。在这项体内分析中,pAMβ1解离位点被缩小到一个99 bp的片段,链交换定位在10 bp范围内,并且解离酶第10位的丝氨酸残基被证明对酶活性至关重要。此外,还展示了该解离系统不会促进枯草芽孢杆菌染色体中DNA倒位的数据。讨论了这一观察结果的意义。