Mycoplasma pneumoniae Recombinants
Abstract Mycoplasmas are bacteria without a cell wall that evolved by drastically reducing the size of the genome. Whole-genome analysis of Mycoplasma pneumoniae revealed the presence of numerous copies of four distinct large repetitive elements (RepMPs) from M. pneumonia. One copy of RepMP2/3, RepMP4, and RepMP5 are located within the P1 operon (MPN140 to MPN142…