The insertion sequence excision enhancer: A PrimPol‐based primer invasion system for immobilizing transposon‐transmitted antibiotic resistance genes

Author:

Chandler Mick1ORCID,Ross Karen2ORCID,Varani Alessandro M.3ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology Georgetown University Medical Center Washington DC USA

2. Protein Information Resource, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology Georgetown University Medical Center Washington DC USA

3. School of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences Universidade Estadual Paulista Sao Paulo Brazil

Abstract

AbstractEvolutionary studies often identify genes that have been exchanged between different organisms and the phrase Lateral or Horizontal Gene Transfer is often used in this context. However, they rarely provide any mechanistic information concerning how these gene transfers might have occurred. With the astonishing increase in the number of sequences in public databases over the past two or three decades, identical antibiotic resistance genes have been identified in many different sequence contexts. One explanation for this would be that genes are initially transmitted by transposons which have subsequently decayed and can no longer be detected. Here, we provide an overview of a protein, IEE (Insertion Sequence Excision Enhancer) observed to facilitate high‐frequency excision of IS629 from clinically important Escherichia coli O157:H7 and subsequently shown to affect a large class of bacterial insertion sequences which all transpose using the copy‐out‐paste‐in transposition mechanism. Excision depends on both IEE and transposase indicating association with the transposition process itself. We review genetic and biochemical data and propose that IEE immobilizes genes carried by compound transposons by removing the flanking insertion sequence (IS) copies. The biochemical activities of IEE as a primase with the capacity to recognize DNA microhomologies and the observation that its effect appears restricted to IS families which use copy‐out‐paste‐in transposition, suggests IS deletion occurs by abortive transposition involving strand switching (primer invasion) during the copy‐out step. This reinforces the proposal made for understanding the widespread phenomenon loss of ISApl1 flanking mcr‐1 in the compound transposon Tn6330 which we illustrate with a detailed model. This model also provides a convincing way to explain the high levels of IEE‐induced precise IS excision.

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Molecular Biology,Microbiology

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