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ArticleMobile DNA2023

Host range of strand-biased circularizing integrative elements: a new class of mobile DNA elements nesting in Gammaproteobacteria.

Desmila Idola, Hiroshi Mori, Yuji Nagata, Lisa Nonaka, Hirokazu Yano

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Article in Mobile DNA, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Desmila IdolaGraduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aobaku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan.
Hiroshi MoriDepartment of Informatics, National Institute of Genetics, 1111 Yata, Mishima, 411-8540, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0806-7704
Yuji NagataGraduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aobaku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan.
Lisa NonakaFaculty of Human Life Sciences, Shokei University, 2-6-78 Kuhonji, Kumamoto, 862-8678, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0881-4626
Hirokazu YanoGraduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aobaku, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan. h-yano@niid.go.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5144-3459
Tohoku University · JPNational Institute of Genetics · JPShokei College · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe strand-biased circularizing integrative elements (SEs) are putatively non-mobilizable integrative elements for transmitting antimicrobial resistance genes. The transposition mode and the prevalence of SEs in prokaryotes remain vague.

resultsTo corroborate the transposition mode and the prevalence of SEs, hypothetical transposition intermediates of an SE were searched for in genomic DNA fractions of an SE host. Then, the SE core genes were defined based on gene knockout experiments, and the synteny blocks of their distant homologs were searched for in the RefSeq complete genome sequence database using PSI-BLAST. A genomic DNA fractionation experiment revealed that SE copies are present in a double-stranded nicked circular form in vivo. Operonic structure of three conserved coding sequences (intA, tfp, intB) and srap located at the left end of SEs were identified as essential for attL × attR recombination. The synteny blocks of tfp and srap homologs were detected in 3.6% of the replicons of Gammaproteobacteria but not in other taxa, implying that SE movement is host-dependent. SEs have been discovered most frequently in the orders Vibrionales (19% of replicons), Pseudomonadales (18%), Alteromonadales (17%), and Aeromonadales (12%). Genomic comparisons revealed 35 new SE members with identifiable termini. SEs are present at 1 to 2 copies per replicon and have a median length of 15.7 kb. Three newly identified SE members carry antimicrobial resistance genes, like tmexCD-toprJ, mcr-9, and bla

conclusionsThis study suggested that transposition intermediates of SEs are double-stranded circular DNA. The main hosts of SEs are a subset of free-living Gammaproteobacteria; this represents a rather narrow host range compared to those of mobile DNA element groups discovered to date. As the host range, genetic organization, and movements are unique among the mobile DNA elements, SEs provide a new model system for host-mobile DNA element coevolution studies.

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