Distribution of multicopy single-stranded DNA among myxobacteria and related species.
AUTOR(ES)
Dhundale, A R
RESUMO
Multicopy single-stranded DNA (msDNA) is a short single-stranded linear DNA originally discovered in Myxococcus xanthus and subsequently found in Stigmatella aurantiaca. It exists at an estimated 500 to 700 copies per chromosome (T. Yee, T. Furuichi, S. Inouye, and M. Inouye, Cell 38:203-209, 1984). We found msDNA in other myxobacteria, including Myxococcus coralloides, Cystobacter violaceus, Cystobacter ferrugineus (Cbfe17), Nannocystis exedens, and nine independently isolated strains of M. xanthus. The presence of msDNA in N. exedens would extend its phylogenetic distribution into another family of myxobacteria. Flexibacter elegans, a Cytophaga-like gliding bacteria which may be even more distantly related, also contained an msDNA but at a much lower copy number. msDNA was not detected in closely related strains of the myxobacteria Cystobacter fuscus and C. ferrugineus (Cbfe16 and Cbfe18) and the more distantly related eubacteria Herpetosiphon giganteus, Taxeobacter ocellatus, Lysobacter antibioticus, Lysobacter enzymogenes, Cytophaga johnsonae, Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides, and Rhodospirillum rubrum. Thus far, msDNA has been found in certain gliding bacteria but not in others.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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