Ao. Kilic et al., IDENTIFICATION AND NUCLEOTIDE-SEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF A TRANSFER-RELATEDREGION IN THE STREPTOCOCCAL CONJUGATIVE TRANSPOSON TN5252, Journal of bacteriology, 176(16), 1994, pp. 5145-5150
To obtain a functional map of Tn5252, a 47.5-kb streptococcal conjugat
ive transposon, a series of defined deletion and insertion mutations w
ere introduced within the transposon. Interruptions at several regions
were found to affect the conjugal transposition functions of the elem
ent in filter-mating experiments. The nucleotide sequence of the left
terminus of Tn5252 showed two open reading frames, ORF1 and ORF2, adjo
ining the att site. The organization of this region and the structure
of the predicted integrase encoded by ORF1 were found to be similar to
those of other site-specific recombination systems.