Characterisation of sin, a potential recombinase-encoding gene from Staphylococcus aureus

Ian T. Paulsen; Matthew T. Gillespie; Tim G. Littlejohn; Orawadee Hanvivatvong; Sally J. Rowland; Keith G. H. Dyke; Ronald A. Skurray

doi:10.1016/0378-1119(94)90136-8

Characterisation of sin, a potential recombinase-encoding gene from Staphylococcus aureus

Ian T. Paulsen, Matthew T. Gillespie, Tim G. Littlejohn, Orawadee Hanvivatvong, Sally J. Rowland, Keith G. H. Dyke, Ronald A. Skurray^*

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Abstract

The staphylococcal β-lactamase (Bla) transposon Tn4002 has previously been reported to have a high level of insertional specificity for a 1.8-kb region on the plasmid pSK1. Nucleotide sequences of this region and of a related region on plasmid pl9789 were determined. Sequence analysis revealed that these two plasmids contain sin, a gene whose deduced product shows similarity to a family of DNA recombinases. Southern hybridisation analysis indicated that sin is located on α-, β- and γ-families of Bla plasmids and on pSK1 family plasmids. A region of dyad symmetry located upstream from sin on pSK1 and pI9789 was identified as the site of insertions of Tn552 and Tn4002 in separate isolates.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	109-114
Number of pages	6
Journal	Gene
Volume	141
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-1119(94)90136-8
Publication status	Published - 8 Apr 1994
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

plasmids
Resolvases
transposon insertions
β-lactamase transposons

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