PMID:2185137

Citation	Old, IG, Margarita, D, Glass, RE and Saint Girons, I (1990) Nucleotide sequence of the metH gene of Escherichia coli K-12 and comparison with that of Salmonella typhimurium LT2. Gene 87:15-21
Abstract	The Escherichia coli K-12 metH gene, encoding the vitamin B12-dependent homocysteine transmethylase, is located between iclR and lysC in the 91-min region of the chromosome. The metH gene has been sequenced and reveals an open reading frame of 3600 bp encoding a polypeptide of 1200 amino acids (aa) with a calculated Mr of 132 628. The first 414 aa of the deduced polypeptide sequence are 92% identical to the 414 aa deduced from the partially sequenced Salmonella typhimurium LT2 metH gene. In-frame fusions of metH to lacZ were used to confirm the reading frame of the metH gene and to study its regulation. metH was repressed tenfold, presumably indirectly, by L-methionine and the metJ gene product, while vitamin B12 did not induce de novo synthesis of MetH.
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Keywords	Amino Acid Sequence; Base Sequence; Chromosome Mapping; Chromosomes, Bacterial; Cloning, Molecular; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Escherichia coli/genetics; Genes, Bacterial; Homocysteine S-Methyltransferase; Methyltransferases/genetics; Molecular Sequence Data; Molecular Weight; Restriction Mapping; Salmonella typhimurium/enzymology; Salmonella typhimurium/genetics; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
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