title: Molecular characterization of the class II multiresistance transposable element Tn1403 from Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
abstract: Transposon Tn1403 is a 19.9-kb multiresistance class II transposable element originally found on the RPL11 plasmid from a clinical isolate of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. It encodes resistance to ampicillin (PSE-1 beta-lactamase), streptomycin and spectinomycin (aadA and aphC), and chloramphenicol (cat). It has structural homology with the tnpM and tnpI sequences of Tn21 and inverted repeats and res and tnpR sequences of Tn501, but it has no structural homology nor functional complementation with the resolvase gene of Tn21 or Tn3. Sequence analysis revealed long inverted repeats at each extremity of Tn1403 containing 38-bp inverted repeats that were 97.4% similar to those of Tn1721 and 5-bp direct repeats. Transposition assays showed a low frequency of transposition (3.5 x 10(-6)) compared with that of Tn3 (3.3 x 10(-3)) and no resolution of cointegrates.
authors.affiliation: Département de Microbiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Vézina
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Levesque
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D003227:Conjugation, Genetic; D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000276:immunology; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial / Q000235:genetics*; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D009841:Oligonucleotides / Q000138:chemical synthesis; D010957:Plasmids; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000235:genetics*; D045564:Transposon Resolvases
chemical_list: D004251:DNA Transposable Elements; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D009841:Oligonucleotides; C473490:Tn21 resolvase; D045564:Transposon Resolvases