Two Amino Acid Residues of Transposase Contributing to Differential Transposability of IS1 Elements in Escherichia coli
AUTOR(ES)
Chen, Jiann-Hwa
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
Escherichia coli W3110 contains four types of IS1 elements in the chromosome. Using an insertion element entrapping system, we collected 116 IS1 plasmid insertion mutants, which resulted from a minimum of 26 independent IS1 insertion events. All of them had insertions of IS1 of the IS1A (IS1E and IS1G) type. Inspection of the transposase sequences of the four IS1 types and the IS1 of the resistance plasmid R100 showed that two amino acid residues, His-193 and Leu-217 of transposase, might contribute to differential transposability of IS1 elements in W3110. The two amino acid residues of the transposase in IS1A (IS1E and IS1G) were altered separately by site-directed mutagenesis, and each mutant was found to mediate transposition at a frequency about 30-fold lower than that of IS1A (IS1E and IS1G). Thus, the assumption that His-193 and Leu-217 of transposase contribute to differential transposability of IS1 elements in W3110 was confirmed.
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