Islander: A database of precisely mapped genomic islands in tRNA and tmRNA genes

Hudson, Corey M.; Lau, Britney Y.; Williams, Kelly P.

doi:10.1093/nar/gku1072

Islander: A database of precisely mapped genomic islands in tRNA and tmRNA genes

Journal Article · Wed Nov 05 00:00:00 EST 2014 · Nucleic Acids Research

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gku1072· OSTI ID:1213420

Hudson, Corey M. ^[1]; Lau, Britney Y. ^[1]; Williams, Kelly P. ^[1]

Sandia National Lab. (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)

Genomic islands are mobile DNAs that are major agents of bacterial and archaeal evolution. Integration into prokaryotic chromosomes usually occurs site-specifically at tRNA or tmRNA gene (together, tDNA) targets, catalyzed by tyrosine integrases. This splits the target gene, yet sequences within the island restore the disrupted gene; the regenerated target and its displaced fragment precisely mark the endpoints of the island. We applied this principle to search for islands in genomic DNA sequences. Our algorithm identifies tDNAs, finds fragments of those tDNAs in the same replicon and removes unlikely candidate islands through a series of filters. A search for islands in 2168 whole prokaryotic genomes produced 3919 candidates. The website Islander (recently moved to http://bioinformatics.sandia.gov/islander/) presents these precisely mapped candidate islands, the gene content and the island sequence. The algorithm further insists that each island encode an integrase, and attachment site sequence identity is carefully noted; therefore, the database also serves in the study of integrase site-specificity and its evolution.

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Research Organization:: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000

OSTI ID:: 1213420

Journal Information:: Nucleic Acids Research, Journal Name: Nucleic Acids Research Journal Issue: D1 Vol. 43; ISSN 0305-1048

Publisher:: Oxford University PressCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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