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. 1998 Mar 1;26(5):1248–1253. doi: 10.1093/nar/26.5.1248

Novel post-replicative DNA modification in Streptomyces: analysis of the preferred modification site of plasmid pIJ101.

P Dyson 1, M Evans 1
PMCID: PMC147391  PMID: 9469833

Abstract

Both Streptomyces lividans and Streptomyces avermitilis have the ability to site specifically modify their DNA, rendering it susceptible to in vitro Tris-dependent double-strand cleavage. We have cloned a 160 bp fragment containing the preferred modification site of plasmid pIJ101 and, employing an in vitro primer extension assay, determined that the modifications occur at guanine residues on either strand separated by 3 bp. These guanines are located within a 6 bp palindromic 'core' sequence. A cloned copy of a 35 bp region of the plasmid containing this core sequence was not recognized by the modifying activity in vivo. To further investigate the nature of the site specificity a set of deletion mutants of the 160 bp sequence were analysed. This revealed that a substantial portion of this sequence is essential for authentic modification. The essential region contains three 13 bp direct repeats, the central one containing the core sequence, while the left-hand and right-hand copies overlap two potential stem-loop structures. Deletion of either left- or right-hand repeat structures abolishes modification within the core sequence, although the left-hand deletion resulted in modification at a secondary site within the right-hand direct repeat. These data support a post-replicative mechanism of modification, underlined by the observation that the modifications are not detected in single-stranded plasmid replication intermediates.

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