PMID:6143662

Citation	Haziza, C, Stragier, P and Patte, JC (1982) Nucleotide sequence of the asd gene of Escherichia coli: absence of a typical attenuation signal. EMBO J. 1:379-84
Abstract	The asd gene of escherichia coli encodes aspartic semialdehyde dehydrogenase, an enzyme involved in lysine, threonine, and methionine biosynthesis; its synthesis is controlled by a multivalent repression mechanism. It was cloned in plasmid pBR322 and its complete nucleotide sequence determined. The sequence predicts a polypeptide chain of 367 amino acids, in good agreement with results obtained for the purified protein ( Biellmann et al., 1980a ). Our data indicate a Cys residue instead of a His residue, which was proposed after covalent labeling of the active center of the enzyme; this is more in line with the catalytic site of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, an enzyme which carries out a similar reaction. The nucleotide sequence that precedes the translational start does not display any of the characteristic features of an attenuation signal. Hence the expression of the asd gene is probably not controlled in the same way as other multivalently repressed operons such as ilva and thr.
Links	PubMed PMC553053
Keywords	Aspartate-Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase/biosynthesis; Aspartate-Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase/genetics; Base Sequence; Codon; DNA, Bacterial/genetics; Escherichia coli/enzymology; Escherichia coli/genetics; Genes, Bacterial; Genes, Regulator
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