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Twenty-eight myxobacterial strains, representing members from all three subgroups, were screened for the presence of retron elements, which are novel prokaryotic retroelements encoding reverse transcriptase. The presence of retrons was determined by assaying strains for a small satellite DNA produced by reverse transcription called multicopy, single-stranded DNA (msDNA). An msDNA-producing retron appeared to be absent from only one of the strains surveyed. DNA hybridization experiments revealed that retron elements similar to retron Mx162, first identified in Myxococcus xanthus, were found only among members of the Myxococcus subgroup; that is, each of the seven different genera which constitute this subgroup contained a Mx162 homolog. Another retron element also appeared to have a clustered distribution, being found exclusively within the Nannocystis subgroup of the myxobacteria. A retron element of the Mx162 type was cloned from Melittangium lichenicola, and its DNA sequence was compared with those of similar elements in M. xanthus and Stigmatella aurantiaca. Together, the degree of sequence diversity, the codon bias of the reverse transcriptase genes, and the clustered distribution of these retrons suggest a possible evolutionary scenario in which a common ancestor of the Myxococcus subgroup may have acquired this retroelement.

Phylogenetic comparison of retron elements among the myxobacteria: evidence for vertical inheritance