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SUBMITTER: Staddon JH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC412114 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Staddon Jack H JH Bryan Edward M EM Manias Dawn A DA Dunny Gary M GM
Journal of bacteriology 20040401 8
The lactococcal group II intron Ll.ltrB interrupts the ltrB relaxase gene within a region that encodes a conserved functional domain. Nucleotides essential for the homing of Ll.ltrB into an intronless version of ltrB are found exclusively at positions required to encode amino acids broadly conserved in a family of relaxase proteins of gram-positive bacteria. Two of these relaxase genes, pcfG from the enterococcal plasmid pCF10 and the ORF4 gene in the streptococcal conjugative transposon Tn5252, ...[more]