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Identification of a transposable genomic island of Paracoccus pantotrophus DSM 11072 by its transposition to a novel entrapment vector pMMB2

Department of Bacterial Genetics, Institute of Microbiology, Warsaw University, Miecznikowa 1, 02-096 Warsaw, Poland

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Dariusz Bartosik
bartosik{at}biol.uw.edu.pl

A novel shuttle entrapment vector, pMMB2, was used to identify a large transposable element, TnPpa1 (44·3 kb), of Paracoccus pantotrophus DSM 11072. TnPpa1 has a composite structure with divergently oriented copies of a cryptic transposon, Tn3434 (Tn3 family), located at both termini. The core region of the element contains a large set of putative genes, whose products show similarity to enzymes involved in central intermediary metabolism (e.g. tricarboxylic acid cycle or 2-methylcitrate cycle), transporters, transcriptional regulators and conserved proteins of unknown function. A 4·2 kb DNA segment of TnPpa1 is homologous to a region of chromosome cII of Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1, which exemplifies the mosaic structure of this element. TnPpa1 is bordered by 5 bp long directly repeated sequences and is located within a mega-sized replicon, pWKS5, in the DSM 11072 genome. Spontaneous inversion of the core region of TnPpa1 was detected in the host genome. Analysis of the distribution of TnPpa1 in three other strains of P. pantotrophus revealed that this element was present exclusively within DSM 11072, which suggests its relatively recent acquisition by lateral transfer. The identification of TnPpa1 (which may be considered a transposable genomic island) provides evidence for the transposition and lateral transfer of large DNA segments of chromosomal origin (carrying various housekeeping genes), which may have a great impact on the evolution of bacterial genomes.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the sequence reported in this paper is DQ149577.

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