PMID:7937867
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Nelson, K and Selander, RK (1994) Intergeneric transfer and recombination of the 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase gene (gnd) in enteric bacteria. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 91:10227-31 |
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| Abstract |
The gnd gene, encoding 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.44), was sequenced in 87 strains of 15 species assigned to five nominal genera of the Enterobacteriaceae, including 36 isolates of Salmonella enterica and 32 strains of Escherichia coli. In S. enterica, the effective (realized) rate of recombination of horizontally transferred gnd sequences is only moderately higher than the rates for other chromosomal housekeeping genes. In contrast, recombination at gnd has occurred with such high frequency in Escherichia coli that the indicated evolutionary relationships among strains are not congruent with those estimated by sequence analysis of other genes and by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis. E. coli and S. enterica apparently have not exchanged gnd sequences, but those of several strains of E. coli have been imported from species of Citrobacter and Klebsiella. The relatively frequent exchange of gnd within and among taxonomic groups of the Enterobacteriaceae, compared with other housekeeping genes, apparently results from its close linkage with genes that are subject to diversifying selection, including those of the rfb region determining the structure of the O antigen polysaccharide. |
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Biological Evolution; Citrobacter/enzymology; Citrobacter/genetics; DNA/genetics; Enterobacteriaceae/enzymology; Enterobacteriaceae/genetics; Enterobacteriaceae/isolation & purification; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Escherichia coli/genetics; Escherichia coli/isolation & purification; Gene Transfer Techniques; Genes, Bacterial; Genetic Linkage; Humans; Klebsiella/enzymology; Klebsiella/genetics; Molecular Sequence Data; Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase/genetics; Phylogeny; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Recombination, Genetic; Salmonella/enzymology; Salmonella/genetics; Salmonella/isolation & purification; Shigella/genetics |
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