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Identification and Characterization of Putative Integron-Like Elements of the Heavy-Metal-Hypertolerant Strains of Pseudomonas spp.  

Ciok, Anna (Department of Bacterial Genetics, Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw)
Adamczuk, Marcin (Department of Bacterial Genetics, Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw)
Bartosik, Dariusz (Department of Bacterial Genetics, Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw)
Dziewit, Lukasz (Department of Bacterial Genetics, Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw)
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Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology / v.26, no.11, 2016 , pp. 1983-1992 More about this Journal
Abstract
Pseudomonas strains isolated from the heavily contaminated Lubin copper mine and Zelazny Most post-flotation waste reservoir in Poland were screened for the presence of integrons. This analysis revealed that two strains carried homologous DNA regions composed of a gene encoding a DNA_BRE_C domain-containing tyrosine recombinase (with no significant sequence similarity to other integrases of integrons) plus a three-component array of putative integron gene cassettes. The predicted gene cassettes encode three putative polypeptides with homology to (i) transmembrane proteins, (ii) GCN5 family acetyltransferases, and (iii) hypothetical proteins of unknown function (homologous proteins are encoded by the gene cassettes of several class 1 integrons). Comparative sequence analyses identified three structural variants of these novel integron-like elements within the sequenced bacterial genomes. Analysis of their distribution revealed that they are found exclusively in strains of the genus Pseudomonas.
Keywords
Integron-like element; integron gene cassette; Pseudomonas spp.; Lubin copper mine; Zelazny Most;
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