Identification and characterization of a site-specific tyrosine recombinase within the variable loci of Mycoplasma bovis, Mycoplasma pulmonis and Mycoplasma agalactiae.
Three highly mutable loci of the wall-less pathogens Mycoplasma bovis, Mycoplasma pulmonis and Mycoplasma agalactiae undergo high-frequency genomic rearrangements and generate extensive antigenic variation of major surface lipoproteins. Adjacent to each locus, an open reading frame exists as a single chromosomal copy and is predicted to encode a site-specific DNA recombinase exhibiting high homology to the recombinases XerD of Escherichia coli and CodV of Bacillus subtilis. Each of the mycoplasmal proteins are members of the lambda integrase family of tyrosine site-specific recombinases and likely mediates site-specific DNA inversions observed within the adjacent, variable loci.
Department of Membrane and Ultrastructure Research, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
Yael
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Ron
Ravenna
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Flitman-Tene
Kevin
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Dybvig
David
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Yogev
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites / Q000235:genetics; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004254:DNA Nucleotidyltransferases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D019426:Integrases; D008074:Lipoproteins / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009174:Mycoplasma / Q000235:genetics*; D016366:Open Reading Frames / Q000235:genetics; D045522:Recombinases; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013045:Species Specificity; D014443:Tyrosine / Q000378:metabolism
D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; C443483:AvgC protein, Anaplasma marginale; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D008074:Lipoproteins; D045522:Recombinases; C121437:Vsp protein, bacterial; D014443:Tyrosine; D004254:DNA Nucleotidyltransferases; D019426:Integrases; C473361:XerD protein, E coli