Physical Analysis of Tn10- and IS10-promoted Transpositions and Rearrangements

Overview

Journal Genetics

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Genetics

Date 1987 Jul 1

PMID 3038673

Citations 24

Authors

M M Shen

E A Raleigh

N Kleckner

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Abstract

We have investigated by Southern blot hybridization the rate of IS10 transposition and other Tn10/IS10-promoted rearrangements in Escherichia coli and Salmonella strains bearing single chromosomal insertions of Tn10 or a related Tn10 derivative. We present evidence for three primary conclusions. First, the rate of IS10 transposition is approximately 10(-4) per cell per bacterial generation when overnight cultures are grown and plated on minimal media and is at least ten times more frequent than any other Tn10/IS10-promoted DNA alteration. Second, all of the chromosomal rearrangements observed can be accounted for by two previously characterized Tn10-promoted rearrangements: deletion/inversions and deletions. Together these rearrangements occur at about 10% the rate of IS10 transposition. Third, the data suggest that intramolecular Tn10-promoted rearrangements preferentially use nearby target sites, while the target sites for IS10 transposition events are scattered randomly around the chromosome.

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