Excision, transfer, and integration of NBU1, a mobilizable site-selective insertion element.
AUTOR(ES)
Shoemaker, N B
RESUMO
The Bacteroides species harbor a family of conjugative transposons called tetracycline resistance elements (Tcr elements) that transfer themselves from the chromosome of a donor to the chromosome of a recipient, mobilize coresident plasmids, and also mediate the excision and circularization of members of a family of 10- to 12-kbp insertion elements which share a small region of DNA homology and are called NBUs (for nonreplicating Bacteroides units). The NBUs are sometimes cotransferred with Tcr elements, and it was postulated previously that the excised circular forms of the NBUs were plasmidlike forms and were transferred like plasmids and then integrated into the recipient chromosome. We used chimeric plasmids containing one of the NBUs, NBU1, and a Bacteroides-Escherichia coli shuttle vector to show that this hypothesis is probably correct. NBU1 contained a region that allowed mobilization by both the Tcr elements and IncP plasmids, and we used these conjugal elements to allow us to estimate the frequencies of excision, mobilization, and integration of NBU1 in Bacteroides hosts to be approximately 10(-2), 10(-5) to 10(-4), and 10(-2), respectively. Although functions on the Tcr elements were required for the excision-circularization and mobilization of NBU1, no Tcr element functions were required for integration into the recipient chromosome. Analysis of the DNA sequences at the integration region of the circular form of NBU1, the primary insertion site in the Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron 5482 chromosome, and the resultant NBU1-chromosome junctions showed that NBU1 appeared to integrate into the primary insertion site by recombining within an identical 14-bp sequence present on both NBU1 and the target, thus leaving a copy of the 14-bp sequence at both junctions. The apparent integration mechanism and the target selection of NBU1 were different from those of both XBU4422, the only member of the conjugal Tcr elements for which these sequences are known, and Tn4399, a mobilizable Bacteroides transposon. The NBUs appear to be a distinct type of mobilizable insertion element.
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