%0 Journal Article %A Sander, Peter %A Alcaide, Fernando %A Richter, Ingeborg %A Frischkorn, Klaus %A Tortoli, Enrico %A Springer, Burkhard %A Telenti, Amalio %A Böttger, Erik C. %T Inteins in mycobacterial GyrA are a taxonomic character %D 1998 %J Microbiology, %V 144 %N 2 %P 589-591 %@ 1465-2080 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-144-2-589 %K GyrA %K intein %K Mycobacterium kansasii %K mycobacteria %I Microbiology Society, %X The A subunit of DNA gyrase in mycobacteria is frequently subjected to splicing events as its gene, gyrA, harbours an insertion encoding an intein. Investigation of a number of different isolates of Mycobacterium kansasii, Mycobacterium malmoense, Mycobacterium marinum, Mycobacterium ulcerans and Mycobacterium xenopi demonstrated that the presence of GyrA inteins is not random but a taxonomic character specific for a given taxon at a species or subspecies level. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/micro/10.1099/00221287-144-2-589