Requirement of IS911 replication before integration defines a new bacterial transposition pathway

AUTOR(ES)

Duval-Valentin, G

FONTE

Nature Publishing Group

RESUMO

Movement of transposable elements is often accompanied by replication to ensure their proliferation. Replication is associated with both major classes of transposition mechanisms: cut-and-paste and cointegrate formation (paste-and-copy). Cut-and-paste transposition is often activated by replication of the transposon, while in cointegrate formation replication completes integration. We describe a novel transposition mechanism used by insertion sequence IS911, which we call copy-and-paste. IS911 transposes using a circular intermediate (circle), which then integrates into a target. We demonstrate that this is derived from a branched intermediate (figure-eight) in which both ends are joined by a single-strand bridge after a first-strand transfer. In vivo labelling experiments show that the process of circle formation is replicative. The results indicate that the replication pathway not only produces circles from figure-eight but also regenerates the transposon donor plasmid. To confirm the replicative mechanism, we have also used the Escherichia coli terminators (terC) which, when bound by the Tus protein, inhibit replication forks in a polarised manner. Finally, we demonstrate that the primase DnaG is essential, implicating a host-specific replication pathway.

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