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Microbiology 144 (1998), 589-591; DOI  10.1099/00221287-144-2-589
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Inteins in mycobacterial GyrA are a taxonomic character

Peter Sander1, Fernando Alcaide2, Ingeborg Richter1, Klaus Frischkorn1, Enrico Tortoli3, Burkhard Springer1, Amalio Telenti2 and Erik C. Böttger1

Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany
Département de Medicine Interne, Division des Maladies Infectieuses, CHUV-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
Bacteriological and Virological Laboratory, Careggi Hospital, 50139 Firenze, Italy

ABSTRACT

The A subunit of DNA gyrase in mycobacteria is frequently subjected to splicing events as its gene, gyrA, harbours an insertion encoding an intein. Investigation of a number of different isolates of Mycobacterium kansasii, Mycobacterium malmoense, Mycobacterium marinum, Mycobacterium ulcerans and Mycobacterium xenopi demonstrated that the presence of GyrA inteins is not random but a taxonomic character specific for a given taxon at a species or subspecies level.

Peter Sander. Tel: +49 511 532 4361. Fax: +49 511 532 4366. e-mail: Sander.peter@mh-hannover.de

Keywords: Mycobacterium kansasii, mycobacteria, intein, GyrA




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