title: Sequence analysis and characterization of the mobilization region of a broad-host-range plasmid, pTF-FC2, isolated from Thiobacillus ferrooxidans.
abstract: The nucleotide sequence of a 5,317-bp fragment which includes the region required for mobilization of broad-host-range plasmid pTF-FC2 was determined. A region of approximately 3.5 kb was required for plasmid mobilization, and oriT was localized on a 138-bp fragment. Polypeptides which corresponded in size and location to several of the open reading frames were detected in an in vitro transcription-translation system. Three open reading frames essential for plasmid mobilization and two which affect the mobilization frequency were identified. There was a distinct similarity in the sizes, amino acid sequences, and locations of the proteins from the mobilization region of pTF-FC2 and the Tra1 region of IncP plasmid RP4. Similarity in the structures and sequences of the oriT regions was also apparent. A sequence with 37-of-38-bp homology to the inverted repeated sequences of Tn21 and an open reading frame with strong homology to the MerR regulatory protein was identified outside of the region required for mobilization.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University of Cape Town, P.B. Rondebosch, South Africa.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rohrer
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Rawlings
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004252:DNA Mutational Analysis; D004261:DNA Replication; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016297:Mutagenesis, Site-Directed; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics*; D016364:Reading Frames; D012093:Replicon / Q000235:genetics*; D017385:Sequence Homology; D013045:Species Specificity; D013855:Thiobacillus / Q000235:genetics*; D014158:Transcription, Genetic