Comparative sequence analysis of plasmids pME2001 and pME2200 of methanothermobacter marburgensis strains Marburg and ZH3

Plasmid
Y LuoAlain Wasserfallen

Abstract

Comparison of the updated complete nucleotide sequences of the two related plasmids pME2001 and pME2200 from the thermophilic archaeon Methanothermobacter marburgensis (formerly Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum) strains Marburg and ZH3, respectively, revealed an almost identical common backbone structure and five plasmid-specific inserted fragments (IFs), four of which are flanked by perfect or nearly perfect direct repeats 25-52 bp in length. A 4354-bp minimal replicon was derived from the alignment of the two plasmids, which encodes one putative antisense RNA related to replication control and five open reading frames (ORFs) organized in two operons. The first operon consists of four ORFs, the third of which, i.e. ORF3, contains a helix-turn-helix motif and a purine NTP-binding motif often found in proteins involved in DNA metabolic processes. The database search results suggest that ORF3 might function as a replication initiator protein. The large putative Rep protein encoded by pME2001 was overexpressed in Escherichia coli as an N-terminal His-tagged version using pET28a and a compatible helper plasmid that coexpresses minor tRNAs, argU and ileX to compensate for codon usage difference. ORFs 1, 2, and 3 are organized in...Continue Reading

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