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Species-specific repetitive extragenic palindromic (REP) sequences in Pseudomonas putida

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dc.creator Aranda-Olmedo, Isabel
dc.creator Tobes, Raquel
dc.creator Manzanera, Maximino
dc.creator Ramos, Juan L.
dc.creator Marqués, Silvia
dc.date 2008-04-23T09:26:18Z
dc.date 2008-04-23T09:26:18Z
dc.date 2002
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T01:03:09Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T01:03:09Z
dc.identifier Nucleic Acids Research, 2002 April 15; 30(8): 1826–1833
dc.identifier 0305-1048
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/3686
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/3686
dc.description Final full-text version of the paper available at: http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/30/8/1826 .-- Copyright © by Oxford University Press. -- Http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/
dc.description Pseudomonas putida KT2440 is a soil bacterium that effectively colonises the roots of many plants and degrades a variety of toxic aromatic compounds. Its genome has recently been sequenced. We describe that a 35 bp sequence with the structure of an imperfect palindrome, originally found repeated three times downstream of the rpoH gene terminator, is detected more than 800 times in the chromosome of this strain. The structure of this DNA segment is analogous to that of the so-called enterobacteriaceae repetitive extragenic palindromic (REP) sequences, although its sequence is different. Computer-assisted analysis of the presence and distribution of this repeated sequence in the P.putida chromosome revealed that in at least 80% of the cases the sequence is extragenic, and in 82% of the cases the distance of this extragenic element to the end of one of the neighbouring genes was <100 bp. This 35 bp element can be found either as a single element, as pairs of elements, or sometimes forming clusters of up to five elements in which they alternate orientation. PCR scanning of chromosomes from different isolates of Pseudomonas sp. strains using oligonucleotides complementary to the most conserved region of this sequence shows that it is only present in isolates of the species P.putida. For this reason we suggest that the P.putida 35 bp element is a distinctive REP sequence in P.putida. This is the first time that REP sequences have been described and characterised in a group of non-enterobacteriaceae.
dc.description This study was supported by a grant from the European Commission (BIO 2000-3126-CE).
dc.description Peer reviewed
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher Oxford University Press
dc.rights openAccess
dc.title Species-specific repetitive extragenic palindromic (REP) sequences in Pseudomonas putida
dc.type Artículo


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