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Association of the strA-strB genes with plasmids and transposons in the present-day bacteria and in bacterial strains from permafrost

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Transposons closely related to the streptomycin resistance transposon of modern bacteria, Tn5393, were detected in the bacterial isolates from permafrost resistant to streptomycin. Many transposons studied were located on the medium-size plasmids with a narrow host range. None of the streptomycin-resistant strains isolated from permafrost contained small plasmids carrying the strA-strB genes and related to the broad host range plasmid RSF1010.

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  1. Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 123182, Russia

    M. A. Petrova, Zh. M. Gorlenko & S. Z. Mindlin

  2. Department of Soil Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119899, Russia

    V. S. Soina

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Original Russian Text © M.A. Petrova, Zh.M. Gorlenko, V.S. Soina, S.Z. Mindlin, 2008, published in Genetika, 2008, Vol. 44, No. 9, pp. 1281–1286.

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Petrova, M.A., Gorlenko, Z.M., Soina, V.S. et al. Association of the strA-strB genes with plasmids and transposons in the present-day bacteria and in bacterial strains from permafrost. Russ J Genet 44, 1116–1120 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1022795408090160

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