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SUBMITTER: Green EP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC335114 | biostudies-other | 1989 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Green E P EP Tizard M L ML Moss M T MT Thompson J J Winterbourne D J DJ McFadden J J JJ Hermon-Taylor J J
Nucleic acids research 19891101 22
The complete sequence of an insertion element IS900 in Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is reported. This is the first characterised example of a mycobacterial insertion element. IS900 consists of 1451bp of which 66% is G + C. It lacks terminal inverted and direct repeats, characteristic of Escherichia coli insertion elements but shows a degree of target sequence specificity. A single open reading frame (ORF 1197) coding for 399 amino acids is predicted. This amino acid sequence, and to a lesser e ...[more]