Nucleotide sequence of the F plasmid leading region

Plasmid

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 219-225

  Manwaring, Neil P ^a   Skurray, Ronald A ^a   Firth, Neville ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CELL KILLING; DNA BINDING; DNA REPLICATION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033043898     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1999.1390     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Bagdasarian M., Bailone A., Angulo J. F., Scholz P., Bagdasarian M., Devoret R. PsiB, an anti-SOS protein, is transiently expressed by the F sex factor during its transmission to an Escherichia coli K-12 recipient. Mol. Microbiol. 6:1992;885-893.
2. Bailone A., Bäckman A., Sommer S., Célérier J., Bagdasarian M. M., Bagdasarian M., Devoret R. PsiB polypeptide prevents activation of RecA protein in Escherichia coli. Mol. Gen. Genet. 214:1988;389-395.
3. Bayer M., Eferl R., Zellnig G., Teferle K., Dijkstra A., Koraimann G., Högenauer G. Gene 19 of plasmid R1 is required for both efficient conjugative DNA transfer and bacteriophage R17 infection. J. Bacteriol. 177:1995;4279-4288.
4. Belogurov A. A., Delver E. P., Rodzevich O. V. Plasmid pKM101 encodes two nonhomologous antirestriction proteins (ArdA and ArdB) whose expression is controlled by homologous regulatory sequences. J. Bacteriol. 175:1993;4843-4850.
5. Burland V., Shao Y., Perna N. T., Plunkett G., Sofia H. J., Blattner F. R. The complete DNA sequence and analysis of the large virulence plasmid of Escherichia coli O157:H7. Nucleic Acids Res. 26:1998;4196-4204.
6. Chase J. W., Merrill B. M., Williams K. R. F sex factor encodes a single-stranded DNA binding protein (SSB) with extensive sequence homology to Escherichia coli SSB. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 80:1983;5480-5484.
7. Chilley P. M., Wilkins B. M. Distribution of the ardA family of antirestriction genes on conjugative plasmids. Microbiology. 141:1995;2157-2164.
8. Claros M. G., von Heijne G. TopPred II: An improved software for membrane protein structure predictions. CABIOS. 10:1994;685-686.
9. Delver E. P., Kotova V. U., Zavilgelsky G. B., Belogurov A. A. Nucleotide sequence of the gene (ard) encoding the antirestriction protein of plasmid ColIb-P9. J. Bacteriol. 173:1991;5887-5892.
10. Dutreix M., Bäckman A., Célérier J., Bagdasarian M. M., Sommer S., Bailone A., Devoret R., Bagdasarian M. Identification of psiB genes of plasmids F and R6-5: Molecular basis for psiB enhanced expression in plasmid R6-5. Nucleic Acids Res. 16:1988;10669-10679.
11. Firth N., Ippen-Ihler K., Skurray R. A. Structure and function of the F factor and mechanism of conjugation. Neidhardt F. C., Curtis R. III, Ingraham J. L., Lin E. C. C., Low K. B. Jr., Magasanik B., Reznikoff W., Riley M., Schaechter M., Umbarger H. E. Escherichia coli and Salmonella: Cellular and Molecular Biology. 1996;2377-2401 Am. Soc. Microbiol. Washington.
12. Frost L. S., Ippen-Ihler K., Skurray R. A. Analysis of the sequence and gene products of the transfer region of the F sex factor. Microbiol. Rev. 58:1994;162-210.
13. Gerdes K., Gultyaev A. P., Franch T., Pedersen K., Mikkelsen N. D. Antisense RNA-regulated programmed cell death. Annu. Rev. Genet. 31:1997;1-31.
14. Golub E., Bailone A., Devoret R. A gene encoding an SOS inhibitor is present in different conjugative plasmids. J. Bacteriol. 170:1988;4392-4394.
15. Golub E. I., Low K. B. Unrelated conjugative plasmids have sequences which are homologous to the leading region of the F factor. J. Bacteriol. 166:1986;670-672.
16. Hu P., Elliot J., McCready P., Skowronski E., Garnes J., Kobayashi A., Brubaker R. R., Garcia E. Structural organization of virulence-associated plasmids of Yersinia pestis. J. Bacteriol. 180:1998;5192-5202.
17. Jones A. L., Barth P. T., Wilkins B. M. Zygotic induction of plasmid ssb and psiB genes following conjugative transfer of IncI1 plasmid ColIb-P9. Mol. Microbiol. 6:1992;605-613.
18. Klimasauskas S., Timinskas A., Menkevicius S., Butkiene D., Butkus V., Janulaitis A. Sequence motifs characteristic of DNA[cytosine-N4]methyltransferases: Similarity to adenine and cytosine-C5 DNA-methylases. Nucleic Acids Res. 17:1989;9823-9832.
19. Kolodkin A. L., Capage M. A., Golub E. I., Low K. B. F sex factor of Escherichia coli K-12 codes for a single-stranded DNA binding protein. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 80:1983;4422-4426.
20. Kulakauskas S., Lubys A., Ehrlich S. D. DNA restriction-modification systems mediate plasmid maintenance. J. Bacteriol. 177:1995;3451-3454.
21. Larsen M. H., Figurski D. H. Structure, expression, and regulation of the kilC operon of promiscuous IncP alpha plasmids. J. Bacteriol. 176:1994;5022-5032.
22. Lin D. C.-H., Grossman A. D. Identification and characterization of a bacterial chromosome partitioning site. Cell. 92:1998;675-685.
23. Lindler L. E., Plano G. V., Mayhew G. F., Burland V., Blattner F. R. Complete DNA sequence and detailed analysis of the Yersinia pestis plasmid encoding murine toxin and capsular antigen. Infect. Immun. 66:1998;5731-5742.
24. Lipman D. J., Pearson W. R. Rapid and sensitive protein similarity searches. Science. 227:1985;1435-1441.
25. Loh S., Cram D., Skurray R. Nucleotide sequence of the leading region adjacent to the origin of transfer on plasmid F and its conservation among conjugative plasmids. Mol. Gen. Genet. 219:1989;177-186.
26. Loh S., Skurray R., Célérier J., Bagdasarian M., Bailone A., Devoret R. Nucleotide sequence of the psiA (plasmid SOS inhibition) gene located on the leading region of plasmids F and R6-5. Nucleic Acids Res. 18:1990;4597.
27. Loh S. M., Cram D. S., Skurray R. A. Nucleotide sequence and transcriptional analysis of a third function (Flm) involved in F-plasmid maintenance. Gene. 66:1988;259-268.
28. Makino K., Ishii K., Yasunaga T., Hattori M., Yokoyama K., Yatsudo H. C., Kubota Y., Yamaichi Y., Iida T., Yamamoto K., Honda T., Han C., Kasamatsu M., Hayashi T., Kuhara S., Shinagawa H. Complete nucleotide sequences of 93-kb and 3.3-kb plasmids of an enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 derived from Sakai outbreak. DNA Res. 5:1998;1-9.
29. Masai H., Arai K. Frpo: A novel single-stranded DNA promoter for transcription and for primer RNA synthesis of DNA replication. Cell. 89:1997;897-907.
30. Mise K., Nakajima K. Isolation of restriction enzyme EcoVIII, an isoschizomer of HindIII, produced by Escherichia coli E1585-68. Gene. 30:1984;79-85.
31. Mohl D. A., Gober J. W. Cell cycle-dependent polar localization of chromosome partitioning proteins in Caulobacter crescentus. Cell. 88:1997;675-684.
32. Nomura N., Masai H., Inuzuka M., Miyazaki C., Ohtsubo E., Itoh T., Sasamoto S., Matsui M., Ishizaki R., Arai K.-I. Identification of eleven single-strand initiation sequences (ssi) for priming of DNA replication in the F, R6K, R100 and ColE2 plasmids. Gene. 108:1991;15-22.
33. Noyer-Weidner M., Trautner T. A. Methylation of DNA in prokaryotes. Jost J. P., Saluz H. P. DNA Methylation: Molecular Biology and Biological Significance. 1993;39-108 Birkhhauser Verlag, Basel.
34. Pohlman R. F., Liu F., Wang L., More M. I., Winans S. C. Genetic and biochemical analysis of an endonuclease encoded by the IncN plasmid pKM101. Nucleic Acids Res. 21:1993;4867-4872.
35. Ray A., Skurray R. Cloning and polypeptide analysis of the leading region in F plasmid DNA transfer. Plasmid. 9:1983;262-272.
36. Sharp P. A., Cohen S. N., Davidson N. Electron microscope heteroduplex studies of sequence relations among plasmids of Escherichia coli. II. Structure of drug resistance (R) factors and F factors. J. Mol. Biol. 75:1973;235-255.
37. Thomas C. M., Smith C. A., Ibbotson J. P., Johnston L., Wang N. Evolution of the korA-oriV segment of promiscuous IncP plasmids. Microbiology. 141:1995;1201-1210.