Insertion with long target duplication: a mechanism for gene mobility suggested from comparison of two related bacterial genomes

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作者
Nobusato, Y
Uchiyama, I
Ohashi, S
Kobayashi, I
机构
[1] Univ Tokyo, Inst Med Sci, Tokyo 1088639, Japan
[2] Okazaki Natl Res Inst, Natl Inst Basic Biol, Okazaki, Aichi 4448585, Japan
关键词
comparative genomics; genome polymorphism; genome rearrangements; Helicobacter pylori; Neisseria meningitidis; pathogenicity island; restriction-modification;
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10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00456-X
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Q3 [遗传学];
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071007 ; 090102 ;
摘要
The complete genome sequences of two closely related organisms - two Helicobacter pylori strains - have recently become available. Comparison of these genomes at single base pair level has suggested the presence of a mechanism for bacterial gene mobility - insertion with long target duplications. This mechanism is formally similar to classical transposon insertion, bur the duplication is much longer, often in the range of 100 bp. Restriction and/or modification enzyme genes are often within or adjacent to the insertion. A similar process may have mediated insertion of the cag(+) pathogenicity island in H. pylori. A similar structure was identified in comparisons between Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae genomes. We hypothesize that this mechanism, as well as two other types of polymorphism linked with restriction-modification genes (insertion accompanied by target deletion and a tripartite structure composed of substitution/inversion/deletion), have resulted from attack by restriction enzymes on the chromosome. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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