Association of the strA-strB genes with plasmids and transposons in the present-day bacteria and in bacterial strains from permafrost
Petrova, M.A.; Gorlenko, Z.M.; Soina, V.S.; Mindlin, S.Z.
Genetika 44(9): 1281-1286
2008
ISSN/ISBN: 0016-6758 PMID: 18846827 Document Number: 622249
Transposons closely related to the streptomycin resistance transposon of modem bacteria, Tn5393, were detected in the bacterial isolates from permafrost resistant to streptomycin. Many transposons studied were located on the medium-size plasmids with a narrow host range. None of the streptomycin-resistant strains isolated from permafrost contained small plasmids carrying the strA-strB genes and related to the broad host range plasmid RSF1010.