Salmonella typhimurium LT2 possesses three distinct 23S rRNA intervening sequences.
AUTOR(ES)
Mattatall, N R
RESUMO
The rrl genes for 23S rRNA of Salmonella typhimurium LT2 are known to carry intervening sequences (IVSs) at two sites, helix-25 and helix-45, which are excised by RNase III during rRNA maturation, resulting in rRNA which is fragmented but nevertheless functional. We isolated DNA fragments containing the seven rrl genes from BlnI, I-CeuI, and SpeI genomic digests following pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and used these DNA fragments as templates for PCRs utilizing primers upstream and downstream of helix-25 and helix-45. Variance in amplicon length and cycle sequencing indicated that rrlG and rrlH have IVSs in helix-25 of approximately 110 bp which are only 56% identical. rrnA, rrnB, rrnC, rrnD, rrnE, and rrnH have IVSs of approximately 90 bp in helix-45, and all have the same nucleotide sequence. Twenty-one independent wild-type strains of S. typhimurium from Salmonella Reference Collection A were analyzed for IVSs by using PCRs with genomic DNAs and by denaturing agarose electrophoresis of RNAs. Many strains resemble LT2, but some have no IVSs in helix-25 and others have IVSs in helix-45 in all seven rrl genes. However, the IVSs in individual wild-type lines are relatively stable, for several LT2 isolates separated over many years by many single-colony isolations are indistinguishable from one another, with the exception of line LB5010, which differs by one helix-25 IVS. We postulate that IVSs have entered strain LT2 by three independent lateral-transfer events and that the IVS in helix-45 was dispersed to and maintained in the same sequence in six of the seven rrl genes by the mechanism of gene conversion.
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