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  • 1
    ISSN: 1365-2958
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: The chromosomes of the soil bacteria Streptomyces, unlike those of most other bacteria, are linear DNA molecules. Their telomeres contain long-terminal inverted repeats and covalently bound terminal proteins (TPs). These bacteria also harbour linear plasmids that share the same structural features. In this study, we demonstrated that the TP was covalently bound to the 5′ ends as proposed previously. A linear plasmid with chromosomal telomeres was constructed and used to purify the TPs of the Strep-tomyces coelicolor A3(2) chromosome. A 20 kDa protein and its 10 kDa degradation product were isolated and their sequences determined by mass spectrometry. The coding sequence (tpgC) was about 100 kb from the right end of the chromosome. Two tpg homologues were identified by sequencing the 50 kb linear plasmid SLP2 of Streptomyces lividans: tpgSLP2 at 6 kb from the left end and a putative tpg pseudogene at 8 kb from the right. The latter was in a terminal repeat shared by the right end of SLP2 and both ends of the S. lividans chromosome. The lack of the typical Streptomyces codon preference in this open reading frame suggests that it is a pseudogene. The close physical linkage between the tpg genes and their cognate telomeres would favour their co-segregation and co-evolution. All the Tpg polypeptides are similar in length (184–185 amino acids) and sequences, which include a putative helix domain that is homologous to part of the DNA-binding ‘thumb’ domain of HIV reverse transcriptase, and a putative amphiphilic beta-sheet that may be involved in the observed self-aggregation of the TP and/or the proposed membrane binding.
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  • 2
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    Molecular microbiology 14 (1994), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2958
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
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  • 3
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    Molecular microbiology 10 (1993), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2958
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Two copies of a DNA sequence similar or identical to one end of the linear plasmid SLP2 were found on the Streptomyces lividans chromosome. Restriction mapping showed that these sequences represented free ends. Electrophoretic retardation and glass-binding studies indicated that the telomeres carry covalently bound proteins. Moreover, the chromosome migrated as an 8Mb linear DNA in pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. A similar finding with the chromosomes of six other Streptomyces species suggested that a linear chromosome may be characteristic of the genus. The S. lividans chromosome can be circularized by joining the two ends by artificial targeted recombination or by spontaneous deletions spanning both telomeres. Thus the chromosome appears to be able to exist, in viable bacteria, as a linear or a circular molecule.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1365-2958
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: The chromosomes of the Gram-positive soil bacteria Streptomyces are linear DNA molecules, usually of about 8 Mb, containing a centrally located origin of replication and covalently bound terminal proteins (which are presumably involved in the completion of replication of the telomeres). The ends of the chromosomes contain inverted repeats of variable lengths. The terminal segments of five Streptomyces chromosomes and plasmids were cloned and sequenced. The sequences showed a high degree of conservation in the first 166–168 bp. Beyond the terminal homology, the sequences diverged and did not generally cross-hybridize. The homologous regions contained seven palindromes with a few nucleotide differences. Many of these differences occur in complementary pairs, such that the palindromicity is preserved. Energy-optimized modelling predicted that the 3′ strand of the terminal palindromes can form extensive hairpin structures that are similar to the 3′ ends of autonomous parvovirus genomes. Most of the putative hairpins have a GCGCAGC sequence at the loop, with the potential to form a stable single C-residue loop closed by a sheared G:A pairing. The similarity between the terminal structures of the Streptomyces replicons and the autonomous parvoviral genomes suggests that they may share some structural and/or replication features.
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  • 5
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    Molecular microbiology 7 (1993), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2958
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: The SLP2 plasmid had previously been demonstrated genetically to exist In Streptomyces lividans by its ability to promote conjugation and to elicit‘pocks’on recipient (SLP2−) cultures, but it had not been physically detected. Using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, a 50kb linear DNA was isolated from SLP2+ but not SLP2− strains of S. lividans, and from Streptomyces coelicolor and Streptomyces parvulus strains to which SLP2 had been transferred by conjugation or transformation. We conclude that this linear DNA is SLP2. The terminal fragments of SLP2 were cloned. The determined sequences revealed a 44 bp imperfect terminal inverted repeat. The terminal 12 bp sequence of SLP2 was identical to those of two other Streptomyces linear plasmids, pSLA2 and pSCL, and similar to the terminal sequences of another Streptomyces linear plasmid, SCP1. The termini of SLP2 DNA were resistant to digestion by λ exonuclease and ExoIII. A truncated (probably crippled) copy of Tn4811 is present on the plasmid. While the SLP2 plasmid exists as a tree form in the host, a 15.7 kb sequence corresponding to the segment of SLP2 from Tn4811 to the right terminus is also present (at a copy number similar to the free form) elsewhere in the genome of S. lividans. Furthermore, SLP2 is partially homologous to a newly discovered 650 kb linear plasmid in S. parvulus.
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    Molecular microbiology 26 (1997), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2958
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: The chromosomes of Streptomyces species are linear molecules, containing long terminal inverted repeats and covalently bound terminal proteins. These chromosomes undergo spontaneous deletions of the terminal sequences at high frequencies and become circularized in several cases examined. Artificial circularization of the Streptomyces lividans chromosome was also achieved by targeted recombination in vivo, in which the terminal inverted repeats of the chromosome were connected by a kanamycin resistance gene (aphII ). Under kanamycin selection, the circularized chromosomes harboured tandem amplifications of a 20.2 kb sequence that included the aphII gene flanked by direct repeats and deletions nearby. On release from kanamycin selection, the aphII amplifications and the neighbouring sequences were deleted from the chromosomes, rendering all the cultures kanamycin sensitive. The chloramphenicol resistance gene, which was prone to deletion in wild-type S. lividans, became much more stable in the kanamycin-sensitive derivatives. These results indicate that the telomeres and/or certain terminal sequences may be involved in the structural instability of Streptomyces chromosomes.
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    Molecular microbiology 47 (2003), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2958
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: SLP2 is a 50 kb linear plasmid in Streptomyces lividans that contains short (44 bp) terminal inverted repeats and covalently bound terminal proteins. The nucleotide sequence of SLP2 was determined. The  rightmost 15.4 kb sequence is identical to that of the host chromosome, including the Tn4811 sequence at the border, which is interrupted by an insertion sequence (IS) element in SLP2. Examination of the flanking target sequences of Tn4811 suggests a previous recombinational event there. The 43 putative protein coding sequences contained many involved in replication (including two terminal protein homologues), partitioning, conjugal transfer and intramycelial spread. The terminally located helicase-like gene ttrA was necessary for conjugal transfer. The two telomeres diverge significantly in primary sequence, while preserving similar secondary structures. Mini-linear plasmids containing these telomeres replicated in S. lividans using the chromosomally encoded terminal protein. In addition, two pseudotelomere sequences are present near the left telomere. The G+C content and GC or AT skew profiles exhibit complex distributions. These, plus the inferred recombination at the right arm, indicate that SLP2 has evolved through rounds of exchanges involving at least three replicons.
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  • 8
    ISSN: 1365-2958
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: The chromosomes of several widely used laboratory derivatives of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) were found to have 1.06 Mb inverted repeat sequences at their termini (i.e. long-terminal inverted repeats; L-TIRs), which are 50 times the length of the 22 kb TIRs of the sequenced S. coelicolor strain M145. The L-TIRs include 1005 annotated genes and increase the overall chromosome size to 9.7 Mb. The 1.06 Mb L-TIRs are the longest reported thus far for an actinomycete, and are proposed to represent the chromosomal state of the original soil isolate of S. coelicolor A3(2). S. coelicolor A3(2), M600 and J1501 possess L-TIRs, whereas approximately half the examined early mutants of A3(2) generated by ultraviolet (UV) or X-ray mutagenesis have truncated their TIRs to the 22 kb length. UV radiation was found to stimulate L-TIR truncation. Two copies of a transposase gene (SCO0020) flank 1.04 Mb of DNA in the right L-TIR, and recombination between them appears to generate strains containing short TIRs. This TIR reduction mechanism may represent a general strategy by which transposable elements can modulate the structure of chromosome ends. The presence of L-TIRs in certain S. coelicolor strains represents a major chromosomal alteration in strains previously thought to be genetically similar.
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  • 9
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    Nature biotechnology 6 (1988), S. 1222-1224 
    ISSN: 1546-1696
    Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
    Topics: Biology , Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
    Notes: [Auszug] Cephamycin C, a member of the 7-methoxycephalosporin family of β-lactam antibiotics, is widely produced among actinomycetes. A 29.3 kb DNA segment from Streptomyces cattleya NRRL8057 was cloned that directed cephamycin C production in a heterologous host, Streptomyces lividans 1326. ...
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  • 10
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    Molecular genetics and genomics 209 (1987), S. 154-158 
    ISSN: 1617-4623
    Keywords: Recombination ; Plasmid ; Streptomyces ; Escherichia coli
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary An Escherichia coli-Streptomyces shuttle plasmid pIF132 containing two direct mel repeats was constructed. While pIF132 replicated relatively stably in E. coli (Rec+ or recA), its structure was unstable in S. lividans: recombination between the mel repeats resulted in a smaller plasmid, pIF138. Furthermore, pIF132 formed oligomers extensively in E. coli but not in S. lividans.
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