Transposition in : inactivation of a second lactocin S operon by the insertion of IS, a new member of the IS family of insertion sequences

The EMBL accession number for the IS nucleotide sequence is AJ250958.

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The analysis of spontaneous bacteriocin-negative mutants has led to the identification and characterization of a new, transpositionally active, insertion sequence of the IS family in the lactocin-S-producing strain L45. The element, which has been designated IS, is 1302 bp long with 10 bp perfect inverted repeat ends and generates direct repeats of a trinucleotide of target sequence upon transposition to the lactocin S locus. IS encodes two consecutive, partially overlapping, major ORFs, which are frameshifted in a manner typical of the IS family. Despite a low overall DNA sequence similarity, the putative frameshifting region of IS is highly similar to the corresponding region of IS, which is a related element previously shown to be active in L45.

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