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IS-elements are devoid of easily recognizable transacting functions and exert their visible effects in the position cis only (recent reviews Calos and Miller 1980; Starlinger 1980). It has been a matter of debate, whether these elements encode functions for their own transposition. In the case of the E. coli IS-elements this could not easily be determined by genetic methods, because most of these elements are present in several copies (Saedler and Heiss 1973; Deonier et al. 1979). In the case of the IS-elements flanking transposons, evidence has recently been brought forward that these carry the transposition specificity (Rothstein et al. 1980; Kleckner 1980; Grindley 1981).
IS4 is present in one copy only in several E. coli K12 strains and should, therefore, be suitable for genetic and physiological studies (Chadwell et al. 1979). It has been cloned from several sites on the E. coli chromosome in pBR322 (Klaer and Starlinger 1980). Here we report the DNA sequence of IS4 which contains an open reading frame for 442 amino acids, and of the junctions of this element with surrounding DNA at three different sites in E. coli chromosome.
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Klaer, R., Kühn, S., Tillmann, E. et al. The sequence of IS4. Molec. Gen. Genet. 181, 169–175 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00268423
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