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. 1991 Sep;173(18):5778–5783. doi: 10.1128/jb.173.18.5778-5783.1991

Characterization of the IS895 family of insertion sequences from the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120.

J Alam 1, J M Vrba 1, Y Cai 1, J A Martin 1, L J Weislo 1, S E Curtis 1
PMCID: PMC208310  PMID: 1653219

Abstract

A family of repetitive elements from the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 was identified through the proximity of one element to the psbAI gene. Four members of this seven-member family were isolated and shown to have structures characteristic of bacterial insertion sequences. Each element is approximately 1,200 bp in length, is delimited by a 30-bp inverted repeat, and contains two open reading frames in tandem on the same DNA strand. The four copies differ from each other by small insertions or deletions, some of which alter the open reading frames. By using a system designed to trap insertion elements, one of the elements, denoted IS895, was shown to be mobile. The target site was not duplicated upon insertion of the element. Two other filamentous cyanobacterial strains were also found to contain sequences homologous to IS895.

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