PMID:2841285
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Schmidt, MG, Rollo, EE, Grodberg, J and Oliver, DB (1988) Nucleotide sequence of the secA gene and secA(Ts) mutations preventing protein export in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 170:3404-14 |
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| Abstract |
The DNA sequence of the secA gene, essential for protein export in Escherichia coli, was determined and found to encode a hydrophilic protein of 901 amino acid residues with a predicted molecular weight of 101,902, consistent with its previously determined size and subcellular location. Sequence analysis of 9 secA(Ts) mutations conferring general protein export and secA regulatory defects revealed that these mutations were clustered in three specific regions within the first 170 amino acid residues of the SecA protein and were the result of single amino acid changes predicted to be severely disruptive of protein structure and function. The DNA sequence immediately upstream of secA was shown to encode a previously inferred gene, gene X. Sequence analysis of a conditionally lethal amber mutation, am109, previously inferred to be located proximally in the secA gene, revealed that it was located distally in gene X and was conditionally lethal due to its polar effect on secA expression. This and additional evidence are presented indicating that gene X and secA are cotranscribed. |
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| Keywords |
Amino Acid Sequence; Bacterial Proteins/genetics; Bacterial Proteins/metabolism; Base Sequence; Chromosome Mapping; Cloning, Molecular; DNA Restriction Enzymes; DNA, Bacterial/genetics; Escherichia coli/genetics; Escherichia coli/metabolism; Genes, Bacterial; Immunoassay; Molecular Sequence Data; Mutation |
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