Structure of rrn operons in pathogenic noncultivable treponemes: sequence but not genomic position of intergenic spacers correlates with classification of Treponema pallidum and Treponema paraluiscuniculi strains

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Authors

ČEJKOVÁ Darina ZOBANÍKOVÁ Marie POSPÍŠILOVÁ Petra STROUHAL Michal MIKALOVÁ Lenka WEINSTOCK George M. ŠMAJS David

Year of publication 2013
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Journal of Medical Microbiology
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Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.050658-0
Field Microbiology, virology
Keywords article; bacterial strain; bacterium isolate; controlled study; gene deletion; genotype; nonhuman; operon; polymerase chain reaction; priority journal; RNA sequence; Treponema; Treponema pallidum; Treponema paraluiscuniculi
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Description This study examined the sequences of the two rRNA (rrn) operons of pathogenic non-cultivable treponemes, comprising 11 strains of T. pallidum ssp. pallidum (TPA), five strains of T. pallidum ssp. pertenue (TPE), two strains of T. pallidum ssp. endemicum (TEN), a simian Fribourg-Blanc strain and a rabbit T. paraluiscuniculi (TPc) strain. PCR was used to determine the type of 16S- 23S ribosomal intergenic spacers in the rrn operons from 30 clinical samples belonging to five different genotypes. When compared with the TPA strains, TPc Cuniculi A strain had a 17 bp deletion, and the TPE, TEN and Fribourg-Blanc isolates had a deletion of 33 bp. Other than these deletions, only 17 heterogeneous sites were found within the entire region (excluding the 16S- 23S intergenic spacer region encoding tRNA-Ile or tRNA-Ala). The pattern of nucleotide changes in the rrn operons corresponded to the classification of treponemal strains, whilst two different rrn spacer patterns (Ile/Ala and Ala/Ile) appeared to be distributed randomly across species/ subspecies classification, time and geographical source of the treponemal strains. It is suggested that the random distribution of tRNA genes is caused by reciprocal translocation between repetitive sequences mediated by a recBCD-like system.
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