Evidence for horizontal gene transfer as origin of putrescine production in Oenococcus oeni RM83.
The nucleotide sequence of a 17.2-kb chromosomal DNA fragment containing the odc gene encoding ornithine decarboxylase has been determined in the putrescine producer Oenococcus oeni RM83. This DNA fragment contains 13 open reading frames, including genes coding for five transposases and two phage proteins. This description might represent the first evidence of a horizontal gene transfer event as the origin of a biogenic amine biosynthetic locus.
Marcobal
Angela
A
Departamento de Microbiología, Instituto de Fermentaciones Industriales, CSIC, Juan de la Cierva 3, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
de las Rivas
Blanca
B
Moreno-Arribas
M Victoria
MV
Muñoz
Rosario
R
D002876:Chromosomes, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D022761:Gene Transfer, Horizontal; D006095:Gram-Positive Cocci / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D009955:Ornithine Decarboxylase / Q000235:genetics*; D011700:Putrescine / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D019895:Transposases / Q000235:genetics; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000235:genetics
D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D014764:Viral Proteins; D019895:Transposases; D009955:Ornithine Decarboxylase; D011700:Putrescine