Abstract
TheMagnaporthe grisea repeat (MGR) sequence MGR586 has been widely used for population studies of the rice blast fungus, and has enabled classification of the fungal population into hundreds of genetic lineages. While studying the distribution of MGR586 sequences in strains ofM. grisea, we discovered that the plasmid probe pCB586 contains a significant amount of single-copy DNA. To define precisely the boundary of the repetitive DNA in pCB586, this plasmid and four cosmid clones containing MGR586 were sequenced. Only 740 bp of one end of the 2.6-bp insert in the pCB586 plasmid was common to all clones. DNA sequence analysis of cosmid DNA revealed that all the cosmids contained common sequences beyond the cloning site in pCB586, indicating that the repetitive DNA in the fingerprinting clone is part of a larger element. The entire repetitive element was sequenced and found to resemble an inverted repeat transposon. This putative transposon is 1.86 kb in length and has perfect terminal repeats of 42 bp, which themselves contain direct repeats of 16 bp. The internal region of the transposon possesses one open reading frame which shows similarity at the peptide level to the Pot2 transposon fromM. grisea and Fot1 fromFusarium oxysporum. Hybridization studies using the entire element as a probe revealed that some strains ofM. grisea, whose DNA hybridized to the pCB586 probe, entirely lacked MGR586 transposon sequences.
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Farman, M.L., Taura, S., Leong, S.A. et al. TheMagnaporthe grisea DNA fingerprinting probe MGR586 contains the 3′ end of an inverted repeat transposon. Molec. Gen. Genet. 251, 675–681 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02174116
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