PMID: 2092362Nov 1, 1990Paper

Palindromic unit highly repetitive DNA sequences exhibit species specificity within Enterobacteriaceae

Research in Microbiology
E GilsonM Hofnung

Abstract

Palindromic units (PU, or REP for repetitive extragenic palindrome) constitute a family of DNA sequences of 40 nucleotides which is highly repeated in the genome of Escherichia coli. We analysed the presence of PU sequences in 99 different bacterial genomes by cross-hybridization. When PU sequences were used as a probe, only DNA from Enterobacteriaceae closely related to E. coli exhibited an appreciable hybridization signal: Shigella sonnei, Shigella boydii, Salmonella enteritica serotype Typhimurium, Citrobacter freundii and Levinea malonatica. Furthermore, these bacteria could be divided into two groups which corresponded to a slight difference in their PU sequence: the E. coli group includes S. sonnei and S. boydii; the S. enteritica serotype Typhimurium group includes C. freundii and L. malonatica.

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Feb 1, 1991·Research in Microbiology·E GilsonM Hofnung
Feb 15, 2000·Research in Microbiology·S BachellierM Hofnung
Apr 11, 1991·Nucleic Acids Research·E GilsonM Hofnung
Dec 27, 2011·Nucleic Acids Research·Bao Ton-HoangMick Chandler
Jun 14, 2013·BMC Genomics·Jaroslav NunvarBohdan Schneider
Nov 16, 2013·Critical Reviews in Microbiology·Chunlei ShiAndrea Isabel Moreno Switt
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