Affiliation:
1. Abteilung Mikrobiologie, Universität Basel, Switzerland.
Abstract
Plasmid p15B and the genome of bacteriophage P1 are closely related, but their site-specific DNA inversion systems, Min and Cin, respectively, do not have strict structural homology. Rather, the complex Min system represents a substitution of a Cin-like system into an ancestral p15B genome. The substituting sequences of both the min recombinase gene and the multiple invertible DNA segments of p15B are, respectively, homologous to the pin recombinase gene and to part of the invertible DNA of the Pin system on the defective viral element e14 of Escherichia coli K-12. To map the sites of this substitution, the DNA sequence of a segment adjacent to the invertible segment in the P1 genome was determined. This, together with already available sequence data, indicated that both P1 and p15B had suffered various sequence acquisitions or deletions and sequence amplifications giving rise to mosaics of partially related repeated elements. Data base searches revealed segments of homology in the DNA inversion regions of p15B, e14, and P1 and in tail fiber genes of phages Mu, T4, P2, and lambda. This result suggest that the evolution of phage tail fiber genes involves horizontal gene transfer and that the Min and Pin regions encode tail fiber genes. A functional test proved that the p15B Min region carries a tail fiber operon and suggests that the alternative expression of six different gene variants by Min inversion offers extensive host range variation.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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