Deciphering the role of IS6110 in a highly transmissible Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing strain, GC1237

Nineteen copies of IS6110 have been localized in GC1237 genome of which, four copies of IS6110 can act as a promoter and we have focused in the characterization of one copy located 31 bp upstream of the essential gene Rv2179c and compared to the reference strain H37Rv.