Site-specific DNA inversion is enhanced by a DNA sequence element in cis

AUTOR(ES)

Huber, Hans E.

RESUMO

A segment of the bacteriophage P1 genome, called the C segment, can be inverted by site-specific recombination; the two different orientations of the invertible segment confer different host ranges to the phage. Inversion is catalyzed by the product of the cin gene which is adjacent to one of the crossover sites flanking the C segment. The Cin-catalyzed recombination can be measured in trans by using tester plasmids in which inversion switches on antibiotic-resistance genes. We show here that an additional sequence, distinct from the two crossover sites, is needed in cis for efficient inversion. This sequence is part of the cin structural gene and stimulates recombination more than 100-fold. We have localized the major enhancer sequence on a 72-base-pair fragment and found its activity to be largely independent of the orientation or position of the sequence with respect to the crossover sites.

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