Welcome to The Transposon Registry. We aim to simplify transposon nomenclature for new bacterial and archaeal elements and provide a searchable repository for all transposons to aid future research.
If you have any comments or suggestions, or wish to include information about the transposons you are working on (regardless of name) please transposon [dot] registry [at] lstmed [dot] ac [dot] uk (email the Tn Team).
To cite The Transposon Registry when reporting your transposons please see;
Supathep Tansirichaiya, Md. Ajijur Rahman and Adam P. Roberts. 2019. The Transposon Registry. Mobile DNA. 10.40 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13100-019-0182-3
or this link takes you directly to the article; https://rdcu.be/bTSMw
Recent work utilising The Transposon Registry includes;
1: Islam H, Sharma A, Blair J, Lopatkin AJ. PlasAnn: a curated plasmid-specific database and annotation pipeline for standardized gene and function analysis. Nucleic Acids Res. 2026 Jan 22;54(3):gkaf1507. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaf1507. PMID: 41591842; PMCID: PMC12839544.
2: Kruasuwan W, Pathomchareansukchai D, Tangsawad W, Wankaew N, Arigul T, Nitayanon P, Nimsamer P, Duangjanchot R, Arayamethakorn S, Chancharussin N, Jenjaroenpun P, Kamolvit W, Suputtamongkol Y, Wongsurawat T, Tansirichaiya S. Clinical long-read metagenomic sequencing of culture-negative infective endocarditis reveals genomic features and antimicrobial resistance. BMC Infect Dis. 2025 Oct 14;25(1):1299. doi: 10.1186/s12879-025-11741-5. PMID: 41087996; PMCID: PMC12522262.
3: Fang Y, Song M, Zhang Y, Wu Z, Li X, Guo Y, Wang N, Hua X, Yu Y. Evolution of XDR <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> ST463 strains with two plasmids harboring multiple antimicrobial resistance genes. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2025 Sep 3;69(9):e0169724. doi: 10.1128/aac.01697 24. Epub 2025 Jul 23. PMID: 40698817; PMCID: PMC12406656.
4: Serna C, Matamoros BR, Pulido-Vadillo M, Delgado-Blas JF, Jansen RR, Willems RJL, Almeida A, Harrison EM, Dupuy B, Coll F, Gonzalez-Zorn B. Global dissemination of npmA mediated pan-aminoglycoside resistance via a mobile genetic element in Gram-positive bacteria. Nat Commun. 2025 Jul 17;16(1):6360. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-61152-y. PMID: 40675954; PMCID: PMC12271512.
5: Tansirichaiya S, Leartsiwawinyu W, Thanawan N, Goodman RN, Tribuddharat C, Roberts AP. Derivatization of pBACpAK entrapment vectors for enhanced mobile genetic element transposition detection in multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli. Access Microbiol. 2025 May 23;7(5):001013.v3. doi: 10.1099/acmi.0.001013.v3. PMID: 40416558; PMCID: PMC12102499.
6: Pan T, Li Q. Mobile genetic elements in <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i>. J Bacteriol. 2025 May 22;207(5):e0001225. doi: 10.1128/jb.00012-25. Epub 2025 Apr 29. PMID: 40298401; PMCID: PMC12096843.
7: Zhou H, Jia C, Shen P, Huang C, Teng L, Wu B, Wang Z, Wang H, Xiao Y, Baker S, Weill FX, Li Y, Yue M. Genomic census of invasive nontyphoidal Salmonella infections reveals global and local human-to-human transmission. Nat Med. 2025 Jul;31(7):2325-2334. doi: 10.1038/s41591-025-03644-4. Epub 2025 Apr 9. PMID: 40205197.
8: Ghatak S, Milton AAP, Das S, Momin KM, Srinivas K, Pyngrope DA, Priya GB. <i>Campylobacter coli</i> of porcine origin exhibits an open pan-genome within a single clonal complex: insights from comparative genomic analysis. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2024 Oct 2;14:1449856. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2024.1449856. PMID: 39415896; PMCID: PMC11480030.
9: Bertrans-Tubau L, Martínez-Campos S, Lopez-Doval J, Abril M, Ponsá S, Salvadó V, Hidalgo M, Pico-Tomàs A, Balcazar JL, Proia L. Nature-based bioreactors: Tackling antibiotic resistance in urban wastewater treatment. Environ Sci Ecotechnol. 2024 Jun 27;22:100445. doi: 10.1016/j.ese.2024.100445. PMID: 39055482; PMCID: PMC11269294.
10: Peng J, Feng J, Ji H, Kong X, Hong J, Zhu L, Qian H. Emergence of Rarely Reported Extensively Drug-Resistant <i>Salmonella</i> Enterica Serovar Paratyphi B among Patients in East China. Antibiotics (Basel). 2024 Jun 2;13(6):519. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics13060519. PMID: 38927185; PMCID: PMC11201502.
11: Liu ZT, Ma RA, Zhu D, Konstantinidis KT, Zhu YG, Zhang SY. Organic fertilization co-selects genetically linked antibiotic and metal(loid) resistance genes in global soil microbiome. Nat Commun. 2024 Jun 17;15(1):5168. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-49165-5. PMID: 38886447; PMCID: PMC11183072.
12: Nokchan N, Wongsurawat T, Jenjaroenpun P, Nitayanon P, Saechan C, Thirakittiwatthana W, Tribuddharat C. Isolation and Genomic Characterization of Schaalia turicensis from a Patient with Gonococcal Urethritis, Thailand. Curr Microbiol. 2024 Jun 14;81(8):221. doi: 10.1007/s00284-024-03756-z. PMID: 38874629.
13: Wang Y, Dagan T. The evolution of antibiotic resistance islands occurs within the framework of plasmid lineages. Nat Commun. 2024 May 29;15(1):4555. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-48352-8. PMID: 38811529; PMCID: PMC11137137.
14: Muñoz-Gutiérrez I, Cantu L, Shanahan J, Girguis M, de la Cruz M, Mota-Bravo L. Cryptic environmental conjugative plasmid recruits a novel hybrid transposon resulting in a new plasmid with higher dispersion potential. mSphere. 2024 Jun 25;9(6):e0025224. doi: 10.1128/msphere.00252-24. Epub 2024 May 21. PMID: 38771049; PMCID: PMC11332342.
15: Sattler J, Noster J, Stelzer Y, Spille M, Schäfer S, Xanthopoulou K, Sommer J, Jantsch J, Peter S, Göttig S, Gatermann SG, Hamprecht A. OXA-48-like carbapenemases in <i>Proteus mirabilis</i> - novel genetic environments and a challenge for detection. Emerg Microbes Infect. 2024 Dec;13(1):2353310. doi: 10.1080/22221751.2024.2353310. Epub 2024 May 23. PMID: 38712879; PMCID: PMC11123474.
16: Li B, Sun C, Li J, Gao C. Targeted genome-modification tools and their advanced applications in crop breeding. Nat Rev Genet. 2024 Sep;25(9):603-622. doi: 10.1038/s41576-024-00720-2. Epub 2024 Apr 24. PMID: 38658741.
17: Hsieh SC, Peters JE. Natural and Engineered Guide RNA-Directed Transposition with CRISPR-Associated Tn7-Like Transposons. Annu Rev Biochem. 2024 Aug;93(1):139-161. doi: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-030122-041908. Epub 2024 Jul 2. PMID: 38598855; PMCID: PMC11406308.
18: Gelsinger DR, Vo PLH, Klompe SE, Ronda C, Wang HH, Sternberg SH. Bacterial genome engineering using CRISPR-associated transposases. Nat Protoc. 2024 Mar;19(3):752-790. doi: 10.1038/s41596-023-00927-3. Epub 2024 Jan 12. PMID: 38216671; PMCID: PMC11702153.
19: Antonelli A, Coppi M, Bonaiuto C, Giovacchini N, Vaggelli G, Farese A, Pollini S, Rossolini GM. Novel resistance ICEs carrying the <i>bla</i><sub>FIM-1</sub> metallo-β-lactamase gene from an ST235 <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> sublineage. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2024 Feb 7;68(2):e0120523. doi: 10.1128/aac.01205-23. Epub 2024 Jan 11. PMID: 38206043; PMCID: PMC10848763.
20: Jia C, Wang Z, Huang C, Teng L, Zhou H, An H, Liao S, Liu Y, Huang L, Tang B, Yue M. Mobilome-driven partitions of the resistome in <i>Salmonella</i>. mSystems. 2023 Dec 21;8(6):e0088323. doi: 10.1128/msystems.00883-23. Epub 2023 Oct 19. PMID: 37855620; PMCID: PMC10734508.
