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A 2.6 kb DNA sequence of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) which functions as a transposable element

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Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) contains CCC DNA molecules, 2.6 kb in size, with an average copy number of less than one per ten chromosomes. Southern hybridisation revealed, in addition, two linear, integrated copies (A and B) of this “mini-circle” sequence per chromosome. The two integrated copies have similar (if not identical) ends and are present in the same locations in various S. coelicolor A3(2) derivatives. The mini-circle sequence is absent from S. lividans 66 and S. violaceolatus ISP5438 and from several Streptomyces species less closely related to S. coelicolor A3(2). None of a variety of Streptomyces plasmids tested contained homology to the mini-circle sequence. When a 1.8 kb fragment of the mini-circle lacking the ends of the integrated copies was inserted into KC515 (a derivative of the temperate phage ϕC31 which is unable to lysogenise host strains by the natural route because the phage attachment site has been deleted) the resulting phage lysogenised S. coelicolor A3(2) (integrating into the genome of this host by homologous recombination with resident minicircle sequences) but not S. lividans or a variety of other ϕC31 hosts. In contrast, a KC515 derivative (KC591) carrying the entire 2.6 kb mini-circle sequence linearised at its single BclI site (and therefore containing the integration site of the free mini-circle) lysogenised not only S. coelicolor A3(2) but also S. lividans 66 and most other strains normally lysogenised by ϕC31. The KC591 lysogens of the eight Streptomyces species tested contained a linear, integrated prophage with termini apparently identical to those of the linear mini-cricle copies of S. coelicolor. In S. lividans, KC591 integrated preferentially at a site apparently homologous to the site occupied by mini-circle sequence A in S. coelicolor A3(2) strains, but integration into secondary sites also occurred.

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    Derek J. Lydiate, Haruo Ikeda & David A. Hopwood

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Lydiate, D.J., Ikeda, H. & Hopwood, D.A. A 2.6 kb DNA sequence of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) which functions as a transposable element. Mol Gen Genet 203, 79–88 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00330387

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