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A new insertion sequence, IS14999, from Corynebacterium glutamicum

¹ Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), 9-2 Kizugawadai, Kizu-cho Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0292, Japan
² Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Ikoma, Nara 630-0101, Japan

Correspondence
Hideaki Yukawa
mmg-lab{at}rite.or.jp

A new insertion sequence from Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 14999 was isolated and characterized. This IS element, designated IS14999, comprised a 1149 bp nucleotide sequence with 22 bp imperfect terminal inverted repeats. IS14999 carries a single open reading frame of 345 amino acids encoding a putative transposase that appears to have partial homology to IS642, an IS630/Tc1 superfamily element, at the C-terminal region in the amino acid sequence. This indicated that IS14999 belonged to the IS630/Tc1 superfamily, which was first identified in C. glutamicum. IS14999 has a unique distance of 38 amino acid residues between the second and third amino acids in the DDE motif, which is well known as the catalytic centre of transposase. This suggested that IS14999 constituted a new subfamily of the IS630/Tc1 superfamily. A phylogenetic tree constructed on the basis of amino acid sequences of transposases revealed that this new transposable element was more similar to eukaryotic Tc1/mariner family elements than to prokaryotic IS630 family elements. Added to the fact that IS14999 was present in only a few C. glutamicum strains, this implies that IS14999 was probably acquired by a recent lateral transfer event from eukaryotic cells. Analysis of the insertion site in C. glutamicum R revealed that IS14999 appeared to transpose at random and always caused a target duplication of a 5'-TA-3' dinucleotide upon insertion, like the other IS630/Tc1 family elements. These findings indicated that IS14999 could be a powerful tool for genetic manipulation of corynebacteria and related species.

IS14999 has been registered with the ISfinder database at http://www-is.biotoul.fr/.

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