Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 14, 725-732, Copyright © 1997 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
EF Boyd and DL Hartl
We have studied the spatial distribution of IS1 elements in the genomes of
natural isolates comprising the ECOR reference collection of Escherichia
coli. We find evidence for nonrandomness at three levels. Many pairs of IS1
elements are in much closer proximity (< 10 kb) than can be accounted
for by chance. IS1 elements in close proximity were identified by
long-range PCR amplification of the genomic sequence between them. Each
amplified region was sequenced and its map location determined by database
screening of DNA hybridization. Among the ECOR strains with at least two
IS1 elements, 54% had one or more pairs of elements separated by < 10
kb. We propose that this type of clustering is a result of "local hopping,"
in which we assume that a significant proportion of tranposition events
leads to the insertion of a daughter IS element in the vicinity of the
parental element. A second level of nonrandomness is found in strains with
a modest number of IS1 elements that are mapped through the use of inverse
PCR to amplify flanking genomic sequences: in these strains, the insertion
sites tend to be clustered over a smaller region of chromosome than would
be expected by chance. A third level of nonrandomness is observed in the
composite distribution of IS elements across strains: among 20 mapped IS1
elements, none were found in the region of 48-77 minutes, a significant
gap. One region of the E. coli chromosome, at 98 min, had a cluster of IS1
elements in seven ECOR strains of diverse phylogenetic origin. We deduce
from sequence analysis that this pattern of distribution is a result of
initial insertion in the most recent common ancestor of these strains and
therefore not a hot spot of insertion. Analysis using long- range PCR with
primers for IS2 and IS3 also yielded pairs of elements in close proximity,
suggesting that these elements may also occasionally transpose by local
hopping.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Nonrandom location of IS1 elements in the genomes of natural isolates of Escherichia coli
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
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