The Transposon Registry

Supathep Tansirichaiya; Md Ajijur Rahman; Adam P Roberts

doi:10.1186/s13100-019-0182-3

The Transposon Registry

Mob DNA. 2019 Oct 9:10:40. doi: 10.1186/s13100-019-0182-3. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Supathep Tansirichaiya^{1

2}, Md Ajijur Rahman^{1

3}, Adam P Roberts¹

Affiliations

¹ 1Department of Tropical Disease Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, L3 5QA UK.
² 2Department of Clinical Dentistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, 9037 Norway.
³ 3Department of Pharmacy, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, 6205 Bangladesh.

Abstract

Transposable elements in prokaryotes are found in many forms and therefore a robust nomenclature system is needed in order to allow researchers to describe and search for them in publications and databases. Here we provide an update on The Transposon Registry which allocates numbers to any prokaryotic transposable element. Additionally, we present the completion of registry records for all transposons assigned Tn numbers from Tn1 onwards where sequence data or publications exist.

Keywords: Accessory function; Antimicrobial resistance; Composite transposon; Conjugative transposon; Horizontal gene transfer; Integrative conjugative transposon; Plasmid; Registry; Tn; Transposon.

Publication types

Review