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. 1992 Nov;174(21):7053-8.
doi: 10.1128/jb.174.21.7053-7058.1992.

Nucleotide sequence of the R721 shufflon

S R Kim  1 , T Komano
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Nucleotide sequence of the R721 shufflon

S R Kim et al. J Bacteriol. 1992 Nov.

Abstract

The shufflon is a DNA region that undergoes complex rearrangement mediated by the product of a putative site-specific recombinase gene, rci. The DNA sequences of the shufflon region and the rci gene of IncI2 plasmid R721 were determined. The R721 shufflon consists of three invertible DNA segments that are homologous to the shufflon segments found in IncI1 plasmid R64. Structural analysis of open reading frames indicated that the R721 shufflon possibly functions as a biological switch for selecting one of the six pilV genes in which the N-terminal region is constant and the C-terminal region is variable. The R721 rci gene was shown to encode a basic protein of 374 amino acid residues.

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