Abstract
Thermoplasma acidophilum is a thermoacidophilic archaeon that grows optimally at pH1.8 and 56°C and has no cell wall. Plasmid pTA1 was found in some strains of the species. We sequenced plasmid pTA1 and analyzed the open reading frames (ORFs). pTA1 was found to be a circular DNA molecule of 15,723 bp. Eighteen ORFs were found; none of the gene products except ORF1 had sequence similarity to known proteins. ORF1 showed similarity to Cdc6, which is involved in genome-replication initiation in Eukarya and Archaea. T. acidophilum has two Cdc6 homologues in the genome. The homologue found in pTA1 is most similar to Tvo3, one of the three Cdc6 homologues found in the genome of Thermoplasma volcanium, among all of the Cdc6 family proteins. The phylogenetic analysis suggested that plasmid pTA1 is possibly originated from the chromosomal DNA of Thermoplasma.
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Abbreviations
- ORF:
-
Open reading frame
- Cdc6:
-
Cell division control protein 6
- RBS:
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Ribosome binding site
- NCR:
-
Non coding region
- PKD:
-
Polycystic kidney disease
- TFIIB:
-
Transcription factor IIB
- BRE:
-
Transcription factor B recognition elemen
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Yamashiro, K., Yokobori, Si., Oshima, T. et al. Structural analysis of the plasmid pTA1 isolated from the thermoacidophilic archaeon Thermoplasma acidophilum . Extremophiles 10, 327–335 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-005-0502-z
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