Abstract:
:Transposable-element-mediated fusion of the conjugal plasmid pOX38::Tn9 with pBR322 results in the appearance of cointegrates composed of a single copy of each plasmid, and cointegrates which carry a single copy of pOX38 but multiple tandem copies of pBR322. These plasmids are separated by directly repeated copies of the transposable element. We demonstrate here that such multimers can be generated from monomeric cointegrates, probably by unequal crossing over between the flanking Tn9(IS1) elements. Their appearance is thus not necessarily associated with the original transposition (fusion) event. Our study demonstrates that the process of duplication is strongly dependent on the homologous recombination system of Escherichia coli, since it is undetectable by our methods in recA- strains. It is also strongly dependent on the presence of a functional DNA polymerase I in the cell. The major pathway(s) for this duplication thus appears to rely on both the homologous recombination system and the replication of the duplicated segment.
journal_name
J Mol Bioljournal_title
Journal of molecular biologyauthors
Chandler M,Galas DJdoi
10.1016/s0022-2836(83)80249-6subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1983-03-25 00:00:00pages
183-90issue
1eissn
0022-2836issn
1089-8638pii
S0022-2836(83)80249-6journal_volume
165pub_type
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