title: Identification and sequence analysis of the region encoding the site-specific integration system from Leuconostoc oenos (OEnococcus oeni) temperate bacteriophage phi 10MC.
abstract: Malolactic fermentation conducted by Leuconostoc oenos is an essential step in winemaking. L. oenos bacteriophages are thought to be responsible for fermentation failures, yet they have received little attention. The integration system of bacteriophage phi 10MC in the LOF111 L. oenos strain chromosome was studied and a 1,456 bp phage DNA fragment was cloned and sequenced. An open reading frame (int) showing homology with several temperate bacteriophage integrases was located upstream of the phage attachment site (attP). This organisation is comparable to other phage site-specific recombination systems. The same bacterial attachment site (attB) located in at tRNA(leu) gene was found in all 15 L. oenos strains studied and was involved in phi 10MC integration in the bacterial chromosome.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biotechnologie et de Microbiologie Appliqée, Faculté d'OEnologie, unité associée INRA-Bordeaux 2, Talence, France.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gindreau
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Torlois
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lonvaud-Funel
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001287:Attachment Sites, Microbiological / Q000235:genetics*; D001435:Bacteriophages / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000235:genetics; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics*; D004587:Electrophoresis, Agar Gel; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D005285:Fermentation / Q000235:genetics; D007934:Leuconostoc / Q000235:genetics* / Q000821:virology*; D008242:Lysogeny / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D010957:Plasmids; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D004279:DNA, Viral