Abstract
The D-ribose operon (rbs) of Escherichia coli K-12 maps at 83 min and is inducible. The rbs operon of E. coli B/r maps at 2 min and is constitutive. Evidence is presented showing that a second inducible copy of the rbs operons is present in E. coli B/r mapping at 83 min. The data indicated that the duplication of the rbs operon represented a transposition of the 83-min region to 2 min. The identification of a second copy of the rbs operon in B/r and the determination of its inducibility were based on the reactivation, through mutagenesis, of inducible rbs expression, mapping by P1 transduction of the mutation site to 83 min, and merodiploid complementation analysis of the D-ribokinase expression in E. coli B/r. We also show that the rbs transposition to 2-min continued to generate transposable elements coding for the 1- to 2-min region of the chromosome and transposing onto extrachromosomal DNA target molecules such as pBR322.
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