Insertion sequences (ISs) are the smallest and most frequent transposable elements in prokaryotes where they play an important evolutionary role by promoting gene inactivation and genome plasticity. Their genomic abundance varies by several orders of magnitude for reasons largely unknown and widely speculated. The current availability of hundreds of genomes renders testable many of these hypoth...

Bacterial insertion sequences (ISs) are the simplest kinds of bacterial mobile DNA. Evolutionary studies need consistent IS annotation across many different genomes. We have developed an open-source software package, IScan, to identify bacterial ISs and their sequence elements--inverted and target direct repeats--in multiple genomes using multiple flexible search parameters. We applied IScan to...

During a study of florfenicol-resistant porcine staphylococci from Denmark, the genes cfr and fexA were detected in the chromosomal DNA or on plasmids of Staphylococcus hyicus, Staphylococcus warneri, and Staphylococcus simulans. A novel variant of the phenicol resistance transposon Tn558 was detected on the ca. 43-kb plasmid pSCFS6 in S. warneri and S. simulans isolates. Sequence analysis of a...

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Very highly degenerate primers with short specific 3' anchor sequences and 5' adaptors were used in conjunction with nested specific primers to amplify large numbers of unknown insertion junctions of the insect retrotransposon Woot, using genomic DNA as template for the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This technique, sometimes referred to as universal PCR, is a powerful method for molecular ch...

in this paper, we introduce and study the concepts of $mathcal{i}_2$-convergence, $mathcal{i}_2^{*}$-convergence for double sequences of fuzzy real numbers, where $mathcal{i}_2$ denotes the ideal of subsets of $mathbb n times mathbb n$. also, we study some properties and relations of them.

We have generated a site-specific 17 bp insertion within a 38 kb chick globin gene cluster by employing the recombination abilities of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This gene cluster contains four beta-type globin genes which share a high degree of sequence homology. In this procedure, a small fragment of beta A-globin DNA containing a 17 bp insertion is subcloned into a URA3-based yeast integratin...

Because retrotransposons are the major component of plant genomes, analysis of the target site selection of retrotransposons is important for understanding the structure and evolution of plant genomes. Here, we examined the target site specificity of the rice retrotransposon Tos17, which can be activated by tissue culture. We have produced 47,196 Tos17-induced insertion mutants of rice. This mu...

Catalytic functionalization of alkynes with organoboron reagents provides a straightforward access to stereochemically defined multisubstituted alkenes, which are structural motifs commonly found in bioactive compounds and organic materials. Recent progress has substantially broadened the scope this field on several fronts. Strategies for regioselectivity control 1,2-migratory insertion across ...