title: A novel cryptic plasmid pBMB175 from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. tenebrionis YBT-1765.
abstract: A new cryptic plasmid pBMB175 from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. tenebrionis YBT-1765 was isolated and characterized. Sequence analysis showed that pBMB175 (14,841 bp and 31% GC content) contained at least eighteen putative open reading frames (ORFs), among which nine ORFs displayed the homology with the hypothetical proteins in rolling-circle replication plasmid pGI3. Deletion analysis revealed that the pBMB175 minireplicon located in a novel 1,151 bp fragment. This fragment contains ORF7 coding sequence, which encodes a protein (Rep175, 149 amino acids [aa]) indispensable for plasmid replication. Rep175 has no significant homology with known function proteins. Furthermore, a putative double-strand origin (dso), having no DNA similarity with characterized dso of other replicon so far, was identified in this minireplicon fragment. These features showed that pBMB175 could be placed into a new plasmid family.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Junyan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Dongmei
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Ziniu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Ming
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sun
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001413:Bacillus thuringiensis / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D023061:Gene Order; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames / Q000235:genetics; D010957:Plasmids / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D012093:Replicon / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA