Sequence specificity of illegitimate plasmid recombination in Bacillus subtilis: possible recognition sites for DNA topoisomerase I.
AUTOR(ES)
Meima, R
RESUMO
Previous work in our group indicated that structural plasmid instability in Bacillus subtilis is often caused by illegitimate recombination between non-repeated sequences, characterized by a relatively high AT content. Recently we developed a positive selection vector for analysis of plasmid recombination events in B. subtilis which enables measurement of recombination frequencies without interference of selective growth differences of cells carrying wild-type or deleted plasmids. Here we have used this system to further analyse the sequence specificity of illegitimate plasmid recombination events and to assess the role of the host-encoded DNA topoisomerase I enzyme in this process. Several lines of evidence suggest that single-strand DNA nicks introduced by DNA topoisomerase I are a major source of plasmid deletions in pGP100. First, strains overproducing DNA topoisomerase I showed increased levels of plasmid deletion. Second, these deletions occurred predominantly (>90% of the recombinants) between non-repeated DNA sequences, the majority of which resemble potential DNA topoisomerase I target sites. Sequence alignment of 66 deletion end-points confirmed the previously reported high AT content and, most importantly, revealed a highly conserved C residue at position -4 relative to the site of cleavage at both deletion termini. Based on these genetic data we propose the following putative consensus cleavage site for DNA topoisomerase I of B.subtilis: 5'-A/TCATA/TTAA/TA/TA-3'.
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