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OHAMA T, INAGAKI Y, BESSHO Y, OSAWA S. Evolving genetic code. PROCEEDINGS OF THE JAPAN ACADEMY. SERIES B, PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 2008; 84:58-74. [PMID: 18941287 PMCID: PMC2805505 DOI: 10.2183/pjab.84.58] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2007] [Accepted: 12/28/2007] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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In 1985, we reported that a bacterium, Mycoplasma capricolum, used a deviant genetic code, namely UGA, a "universal" stop codon, was read as tryptophan. This finding, together with the deviant nuclear genetic codes in not a few organisms and a number of mitochondria, shows that the genetic code is not universal, and is in a state of evolution. To account for the changes in codon meanings, we proposed the codon capture theory stating that all the code changes are non-disruptive without accompanied changes of amino acid sequences of proteins. Supporting evidence for the theory is presented in this review. A possible evolutionary process from the ancient to the present-day genetic code is also discussed.
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- Takeshi OHAMA
- Kochi University of Technology, Department of Environmental System Engineering, 185 Miyanokuchi, Tosayamada-Cho, Kaimi-Shi, Kochi 782-8502, Japan
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- University of Tsukuba, Center for Computational Sciences, Institute of Biological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8577, Japan
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- Genomic Sciences Center, Yokohama Institute, RIKEN, 1-7-22, Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi, Yokohama 230-0045, Japan
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- 1003, 2-4-7, Ushita-Asahi, Higashi-ku, Hiroshima 732-0067, Japan
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Wagar EA, Pang M. The gene for the S7 ribosomal protein ofChlamydia trachomatis: characterization within the chlamydialsfroperon. Mol Microbiol 2006; 6:327-335. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1992.tb01475.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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González-Díaz H, Pérez-Bello A, Uriarte E, González-Díaz Y. QSAR study for mycobacterial promoters with low sequence homology. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2006; 16:547-53. [PMID: 16275068 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2005.10.057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2005] [Revised: 10/13/2005] [Accepted: 10/18/2005] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The general belief is that quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) techniques work only for small molecules and, protein sequences or, more recently, DNA sequences. However, with non-branched graph for proteins and DNA sequences the QSAR often have to be based on powerful non-linear techniques such as support vector machines. In our opinion, linear QSAR models based on RNA could be useful to assign biological activity when alignment techniques fail due to low sequence homology. The idea bases the high level of branching for the RNA graph. This work introduces the so-called Markov electrostatic potentials (k)xi(M) as a new class of RNA 2D-structure descriptors. Subsequently, we validate these molecular descriptors solving a QSAR classification problem for mycobacterial promoter sequences (mps), which constitute a very low sequence homology problem. The model developed (mps=-4.664.(0)xi(M)+0. 991.(1)xi(M)-2.432) was intended to predict whether a naturally occurring sequence is an mps or not on the basis of the calculated (k)xi(M) value for the corresponding RNA secondary structure. The RNA-QSAR approach recognises 115/135mps (85.2%) and 100% of control sequences. Average predictability and robustness were greater than 95%. A previous non-linear model predicts mps with a slightly higher accuracy (97%) but uses a very large parameter space for DNA sequences. Conversely, the (k)xi(M)-based RNA-QSAR encodes more structural information and needs only two variables.
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Mitreva M, Wendl MC, Martin J, Wylie T, Yin Y, Larson A, Parkinson J, Waterston RH, McCarter JP. Codon usage patterns in Nematoda: analysis based on over 25 million codons in thirty-two species. Genome Biol 2006; 7:R75. [PMID: 26271136 PMCID: PMC1779591 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2006-7-8-r75] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2006] [Revised: 06/30/2006] [Accepted: 08/14/2006] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Codon usage has direct utility in molecular characterization of species and is also a arker for molecular evolution. To understand codon usage within the diverse phylum Nematoda,we analyzed a total of 265,494 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from 30 nematode species. The full genomes of Caenorhabditis elegans and C. briggsae were also examined. A total of 25,871,325 codons ere analyzed and a comprehensive codon usage table for all species was generated. This is the first codon usage table available for 24 of these organisms. RESULTS Codon usage similarity in Nematoda usually persists over the breadth of a genus but thenrapidly diminishes even within each clade. Globodera, Meloidogyne, Pristionchus, and Strongyloides have the most highly derived patterns of codon usage. The major factor affecting differences in codon usage between species is the coding sequence GC content, which varies in nematodes from 32%to 51%. Coding GC content (measured as GC3) also explains much of the observed variation in the effective number of codons (R = 0.70), which is a measure of codon bias, and it even accounts for differences in amino acid frequency. Codon usage is also affected by neighboring nucleotides(N1 context). Coding GC content correlates strongly with estimated noncoding genomic GC content (R = 0.92). On examining abundant clusters in five species, candidate optimal codons were identified that may be preferred in highly expressed transcripts. CONCLUSION Evolutionary models indicate that total genomic GC content, probably the product of directional mutation pressure, drives codon usage rather than the converse, a conclusion that is supported by examination of nematode genomes.
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- Makedonka Mitreva
- Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
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- Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
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- Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
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- Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
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- Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
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- Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
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- Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, and Departments of Biochemistry/Medical Genetics and Microbiology, University of Toronto, M5G 1X8, Canada
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- Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
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- Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
- Divergence Inc., St Louis, Missouri 63141, USA
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Stochastic molecular descriptors for polymers. 3. Markov electrostatic moments as polymer 2D-folding descriptors: RNA–QSAR for mycobacterial promoters. POLYMER 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2005.04.104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Kalate RN, Tambe SS, Kulkarni BD. Artificial neural networks for prediction of mycobacterial promoter sequences. Comput Biol Chem 2004; 27:555-64. [PMID: 14667783 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2003.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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A multilayered feed-forward ANN architecture trained using the error-back-propagation (EBP) algorithm has been developed for predicting whether a given nucleotide sequence is a mycobacterial promoter sequence. Owing to the high prediction capability ( congruent with 97%) of the developed network model, it has been further used in conjunction with the caliper randomization (CR) approach for determining the structurally/functionally important regions in the promoter sequences. The results obtained thereby indicate that: (i) upstream region of -35 box, (ii) -35 region, (iii) spacer region and, (iv) -10 box, are important for mycobacterial promoters. The CR approach also suggests that the -38 to -29 region plays a significant role in determining whether a given sequence is a mycobacterial promoter. In essence, the present study establishes ANNs as a tool for predicting mycobacterial promoter sequences and determining structurally/functionally important sub-regions therein.
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- Rupali N Kalate
- Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan.
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Haga S, Hirano Y, Murayama O, Millar BC, Moore JE, Matsuda M. Structural analysis and genetic variation of the 16S-23S rDNA internal spacer region from Micrococcus luteus strains. Lett Appl Microbiol 2003; 37:314-7. [PMID: 12969495 DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-765x.2003.01399.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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AIMS To clone and sequence the 16S-23S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) internal spacer region (ISR) from Micrococcus luteus. METHODS AND RESULTS The primer pair for 16S-23S rDNA ISR amplified a fragment of about 850 bp in length for two strains, JCM3347 and JCM3348 and a fragment of about 790 bp for a strain, ATCC9341. After sequencing the ISRs were identified by the comparison of the ISRs and the flanking regions of ISR. CONCLUSIONS Although the sequence difference of the ISR occurred at only one position between the two JCM strains, the highly variable length (440 and 370 bp) and sequence similarity (about 40%) were demonstrated between the ISRs of the two JCM strains and a ATCC strain. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY A CCTCCT sequence was first detected at the 3'-end of the 16S rDNA of the three strains. Moreover, highly similar sequence to the 21-bp region containing a putative rRNA processing site was observed in the ISR of the three strains. Interestingly, no intercistronic tRNAs were demonstrated in the ISRs from the three strains.
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- S Haga
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology, School of Environmental Health Sciences, Azabu University, Sagamihara, Japan
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Ke D, Boissinot M, Huletsky A, Picard FJ, Frenette J, Ouellette M, Roy PH, Bergeron MG. Evidence for horizontal gene transfer in evolution of elongation factor Tu in enterococci. J Bacteriol 2000; 182:6913-20. [PMID: 11092850 PMCID: PMC94815 DOI: 10.1128/jb.182.24.6913-6920.2000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The elongation factor Tu, encoded by tuf genes, is a GTP binding protein that plays a central role in protein synthesis. One to three tuf genes per genome are present, depending on the bacterial species. Most low-G+C-content gram-positive bacteria carry only one tuf gene. We have designed degenerate PCR primers derived from consensus sequences of the tuf gene to amplify partial tuf sequences from 17 enterococcal species and other phylogenetically related species. The amplified DNA fragments were sequenced either by direct sequencing or by sequencing cloned inserts containing putative amplicons. Two different tuf genes (tufA and tufB) were found in 11 enterococcal species, including Enterococcus avium, Enterococcus casseliflavus, Enterococcus dispar, Enterococcus durans, Enterococcus faecium, Enterococcus gallinarum, Enterococcus hirae, Enterococcus malodoratus, Enterococcus mundtii, Enterococcus pseudoavium, and Enterococcus raffinosus. For the other six enterococcal species (Enterococcus cecorum, Enterococcus columbae, Enterococcus faecalis, Enterococcus sulfureus, Enterococcus saccharolyticus, and Enterococcus solitarius), only the tufA gene was present. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, the 11 species having two tuf genes all have a common ancestor, while the six species having only one copy diverged from the enterococcal lineage before that common ancestor. The presence of one or two copies of the tuf gene in enterococci was confirmed by Southern hybridization. Phylogenetic analysis of tuf sequences demonstrated that the enterococcal tufA gene branches with the Bacillus, Listeria, and Staphylococcus genera, while the enterococcal tufB gene clusters with the genera Streptococcus and Lactococcus. Primary structure analysis showed that four amino acid residues encoded within the sequenced regions are conserved and unique to the enterococcal tufB genes and the tuf genes of streptococci and Lactococcus lactis. The data suggest that an ancestral streptococcus or a streptococcus-related species may have horizontally transferred a tuf gene to the common ancestor of the 11 enterococcal species which now carry two tuf genes.
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- D Ke
- Centre de Recherche en Infectiologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec (Pavillon CHUL), Sainte-Foy, Québec G1V 4G2
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Roh JH, Wouters J, Depiereux E, Yukawa H, Inui M, Minami H, Suzuki H, Kumagai H. Purification, cloning, and three-dimensional structure prediction of Micrococcus luteus FAD-containing tyramine oxidase. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2000; 268:293-7. [PMID: 10679196 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.2113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The FAD-containing tyramine oxidase enzyme and gene from the Gram (+) bacterium Micrococcus luteus were isolated, and computer prediction was used to propose a preliminary 3D model of the protein. A 2.8-kb Sau3AI fragment containing the structural gene of tyramine oxidase was cloned from a M. luteus genomic DNA library. The 1332 bp gene encodes a protein of 443 amino acids, with a calculated molecular mass of 49.1 kDa. The enzyme was found to be a homodimer with a molecular weight of 49,000. It oxidizes tyramine, adrenaline, 3-hydroxytyramine, dopamine, and noradrenaline, and was reversibly inhibited by FAD-containing monoamine oxidase A and B specific inhibitors. Sequence comparison show that tyramine oxidase is smaller than other FAD-amine oxidases but that it contains well-conserved amino acid residues reported in all other FAD-amine oxidases. A hypothetical three-dimensional structure of tyramine oxidase has also been proposed based on secondary structure predictions, threading, and comparative modeling.
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- J H Roh
- Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, Japan
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Heffron SE, Jurnak F. Structure of an EF-Tu complex with a thiazolyl peptide antibiotic determined at 2.35 A resolution: atomic basis for GE2270A inhibition of EF-Tu. Biochemistry 2000; 39:37-45. [PMID: 10625477 DOI: 10.1021/bi9913597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The structure of a 1:1 molar complex between Escherichia coli elongation factor (EF) Tu-GDP and the cyclic thiazolyl peptide antibiotic, GE2270A, has been determined by X-ray diffraction analysis to a resolution of 2.35 A and refined to a crystallographic refinement factor of 20.6%. The antibiotic binds in the second domain of EF-Tu-GDP, making contact with three segments of amino acids (residues 215-230, 256-264, and 273-277). The majority of the protein-antibiotic contacts are van der Waals interactions. A striking feature of the antibiotic binding site is the presence of a salt bridge, not previously observed in other EF-Tu complexes. The ionic interaction between Arg 223 and Glu 259 forms over the antibiotic and probably accounts for the strong affinity observed between EF-Tu and GE2270A. Arg 223 and Glu 259 are highly conserved, but not invariant throughout the prokaryotic EF-Tu family, suggesting that the antibiotic may bind EF-Tu from some organisms better than others may. Superposition of the antibiotic binding site on the EF-Tu-GTP conformation reveals that one region of the antibiotic would form steric clashes with the guanine nucleotide-binding domain in the GTP, but not the GDP, conformation. Another region of the antibiotic binds to the same site as the aminoacyl group of tRNA. Together with prior biochemical studies, the structural findings confirm that GE2270A inhibits protein synthesis by blocking the GDP to GTP conformational change and by directly competing with aminoacyl-tRNA for the same binding site on EF-Tu. In each of the bacterial strains that are resistant to GE2270A, the effect of a site-specific mutation in EF-Tu could explain resistance. Comparison of the GE2270A site in EF-Tu with sequence homologues, EF-G and EF-1alpha, suggests steric clashes that would prevent the antibiotic from binding to translocation factors or to the eukaryotic equivalent of EF-Tu. Although GE2270A is a potent antibiotic, its clinical efficacy is limited by its low aqueous solubility. The results presented here provide the details necessary to enhance the solubility of GE2270A without disrupting its inhibitory properties.
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- S E Heffron
- Department of Physiology, University of California, Irvine 92697-4560, USA
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Mulder MA, Zappe H, Steyn LM. Mycobacterial promoters. TUBERCLE AND LUNG DISEASE : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE 1999; 78:211-23. [PMID: 10209675 DOI: 10.1016/s0962-8479(97)90001-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- M A Mulder
- Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Baetens M, Legrain C, Boyen A, Glansdorff N. Genes and enzymes of the acetyl cycle of arginine biosynthesis in the extreme thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus HB27. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 1998; 144 ( Pt 2):479-492. [PMID: 9493385 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-144-2-479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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An arginine biosynthetic gene cluster, argC-argJ, of the extreme thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus HB27 was isolated by heterologous complementation of an Escherichia coli acetylornithinase mutant. The recombinant plasmid (pTHM1) conferred ornithine acetyltransferase activity to the E. coli host, implying that T. thermophilus uses the energetically more economic pathway for the deacetylation of acetylornithine. pTHM1 was, however, unable to complement an E. coli argA mutant and no acetylglutamate synthase activity could be detected in E. coli argA cells containing pTHM1. The T. thermophilus argJ-encoded enzyme is thus monofunctional and is unable to use acetyl-CoA to acetylate glutamate (contrary to the Bacillus stearothermophilus homologue). Alignment of several ornithine acetyltransferase amino acid sequences showed no obvious pattern that could account for this difference; however, the monofunctional enzymes proved to have shorter N-termini. Sequence analysis of the pTHM1 3.2 kb insert revealed the presence of the argC gene (encoding N-acetylglutamate-5-semialdehyde dehydrogenase) upstream of the argJ gene. Alignment of several N-acetylglutamate-5-semialdehyde dehydrogenase amino acid sequences allowed identification of two strongly conserved putative motifs for cofactor binding: a putative FAD-binding site and a motif reminiscent of the NADPH-binding fingerprint. The relationship between the amino acid content of both enzymes and thermostability is discussed and an effect of the GC content bias is indicated. Transcription of both the argC and argJ genes appeared to be vector-dependent. The argJ-encoded enzyme activity was twofold repressed by arginine in the native host and was inhibited by ornithine. Both upstream of the argC gene and downstream of the argJ gene an ORF with unknown function was found, indicating that the organization of the arginine biosynthetic genes in T. thermophilus is new.
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MESH Headings
- Acetyl Coenzyme A/metabolism
- Acetyltransferases/genetics
- Acetyltransferases/metabolism
- Aldehyde Oxidoreductases
- Amidohydrolases/genetics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Amino-Acid N-Acetyltransferase
- Arginine/metabolism
- Bacterial Proteins/genetics
- Bacterial Proteins/metabolism
- Base Composition
- Chromosome Mapping
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Bacterial/analysis
- DNA, Bacterial/genetics
- Escherichia coli/genetics
- Flavin-Adenine Dinucleotide/metabolism
- Genes, Bacterial
- Genetic Complementation Test
- Glutamates/metabolism
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Multigene Family
- Mutagenesis, Insertional
- NADP/metabolism
- Open Reading Frames
- Ornithine/metabolism
- Plasmids
- Recombination, Genetic
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Thermus thermophilus/genetics
- Thermus thermophilus/metabolism
- Transcription, Genetic
- Transformation, Genetic
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- Margot Baetens
- Vlaams Interuniversitair Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Emile Grysonlaan 1, B-1070 Brussel, Belgium
- Microbiologie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Emile Grysonlaan 1, B-1070 Brussel, Belgium
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- Vlaams Interuniversitair Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Emile Grysonlaan 1, B-1070 Brussel, Belgium
- Microbiologie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Emile Grysonlaan 1, B-1070 Brussel, Belgium
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- Research Institute CERIA-COOVI, Emile Grysonlaan 1, B-1070 Brussel, Belgium
- Vlaams Interuniversitair Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Emile Grysonlaan 1, B-1070 Brussel, Belgium
- Microbiologie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Emile Grysonlaan 1, B-1070 Brussel, Belgium
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Vasanthakrishna M, Kumar NV, Varshney U. Characterization of the initiator tRNA gene locus and identification of a strong promoter from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. MICROBIOLOGY (READING, ENGLAND) 1997; 143 ( Pt 11):3591-3598. [PMID: 9387237 DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-11-3591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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An initiator tRNA gene, metA, and a closely linked fragment of a second initiator-tRNA-like sequence, metB, from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra have been cloned and characterized. The promoter region of metA shows the presence of conserved sequence elements, TAGCCT and TTGGCG, with resemblance to -10 and -35 promoter regions. The deduced sequence of the mature tRNA contains the three unique features of the eubacterial initiator tRNAs represented by (i) a C:U mismatch at position 1:72, (ii) three consecutive base pairs, 29-31G:C39-41 in the anticodon stem, and (iii) a purine:pyrimidine (A:U) base pair at position 11:24 in the dihydrouridine stem. A putative hairpin structure consisting of an 11 bp stem and a three-base loop found in the 3' flanking region is followed by a stretch of T residues and may serve as a transcription terminator. Analysis of the expression of metA and of its promoter using chloramphenicol acetyltransferase fusion constructs in Mycobacterium smegmatis shows that metA is a functional gene driven by a strong promoter. Furthermore, the overexpressed transcripts are fully processed and formylated in vivo. The metB clone shows the presence of sequences corresponding to those downstream of position 30 of the tRNA. However, the CCA sequence at the 3' end has been mutated to CCG. Interestingly, the 3' flanking sequences of both the genes are rich in GCT repeats. The metB locus also harbours a repeat element, IS6110. A method to prepare total RNA from mycobacteria (under acidic conditions) to analyse in vivo status of tRNAs is described.
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MESH Headings
- Acylation
- Anticodon/genetics
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- Conserved Sequence/genetics
- Genes, Bacterial/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mycobacterium/genetics
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis/genetics
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Promoter Regions, Genetic/genetics
- RNA, Bacterial/analysis
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- RNA, Transfer, Met/analysis
- RNA, Transfer, Met/chemistry
- RNA, Transfer, Met/genetics
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid/genetics
- Restriction Mapping
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Transcription, Genetic/genetics
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- M Vasanthakrishna
- Centre for Genetic Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India
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- Centre for Genetic Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India
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- Centre for Genetic Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India
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Vysotskaya VS, Shcherbakov DV, Garber MB. Sequencing and analysis of the Thermus thermophilus ribosomal protein gene cluster equivalent to the spectinomycin operon. Gene 1997; 193:23-30. [PMID: 9249063 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-1119(97)00072-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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To assess the organization of the Thermus thermophilus ribosomal protein genes, a fragment of DNA containing the complete S10 region and ten ribosomal protein genes of the spc region was cloned, using an oligonucleotide coding for the N-terminal amino acid (aa) sequence of T. thermophilus S8 protein as hybridization probe. The nucleotide sequence of a 4290 bp region between the rps17 and rpl15 genes was determined. Comparative analysis of this gene cluster showed that the gene arrangement (S17, L14, L24, L5, S14, S8, L6, L18, S5, L30 and L15) is identical to that of eubacteria. However, T. thermophilus ribosomal protein genes corresponding to the Escherichia coli S10 and spc operons are not resolved into two clusters: the stop codon of the rps17 gene (the last gene of the S10 operon in E. coli) and the start codon of the rpl14 gene (the first gene of the spc operon in E. coli) overlap. Most genes, except the rps14-rps8 intergenic spacer (69 bp), are separated by very short (only 3-7 bp) spacer regions or partially overlapped. The deduced aa sequences of T. thermophilus proteins share about 51-100% identities with the sequences of homologous proteins from thermophile Thermus aquaticus and Thermotoga maritima and 27-70% identities with the sequences of their mesophile counterparts.
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- V S Vysotskaya
- Department of Structure and Function of the Ribosome, Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region.
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Hosted TJ, Baltz RH. Use of rpsL for dominance selection and gene replacement in Streptomyces roseosporus. J Bacteriol 1997; 179:180-6. [PMID: 8981996 PMCID: PMC178677 DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.1.180-186.1997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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We developed a gene replacement system using the rpsL gene of Streptomyces roseosporus and demonstrated its utility by constructing a deletion in the S. roseosporus glnA gene. A 1.3-kb BamHI fragment that hybridized to the Mycobacterium smegmatis rpsL gene was subcloned from an S. roseosporus cosmid library and sequenced. Plasmid pRHB514 containing the rpsL gene conferred streptomycin sensitivity (Sm(S)) to the Sm(r) S. roseosporus TH149. The temperature-sensitive plasmid pRHB543 containing rpsL and the S. roseosporus glnA gene disrupted with a hygromycin resistance (Hm(r)) gene was introduced into S. roseosporus TH149, and recombinants containing single and double crossovers were obtained after a temperature increase. Southern hybridization analysis revealed that single crossovers occurred in the glnA or rpsL genes and that double crossovers resulted in replacement of the chromosomal glnA gene with the disrupted glnA. Glutamine synthetase activity was undetectable in the recombinant containing the disrupted glnA gene.
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- T J Hosted
- Lilly Research Laboratories, A Division of Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana 46285, USA
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Syvänen AC, Amiri H, Jamal A, Andersson SG, Kurland CG. A chimeric disposition of the elongation factor genes in Rickettsia prowazekii. J Bacteriol 1996; 178:6192-9. [PMID: 8892818 PMCID: PMC178489 DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.21.6192-6199.1996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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An exceptional disposition of the elongation factor genes is observed in Rickettsia prowazekii, in which there is only one tuf gene, which is distant from the lone fus gene. In contrast, the closely related bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens has the normal bacterial arrangement of two tuf genes, of which one is tightly linked to the fus gene. Analysis of the flanking sequences of the single tuf gene in R. prowazekii shows that it is preceded by two of the four tRNA genes located in the 5' region of the Escherichia coli tufB gene and that it is followed by rpsJ as well as associated ribosomal protein genes, which in E. coli are located downstream of the tufA gene. The fus gene is located within the str operon and is followed by one tRNA gene as well as by the genes secE and nusG, which are located in the 3' region of tufB in E. coli. This atypical disposition of genes suggests that intrachromosomal recombination between duplicated tuf genes has contributed to the evolution of the unique genomic architecture of R. prowazekii.
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- A C Syvänen
- Department of Molecular Biology, Biomedical Center, Uppsala University, Sweden
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The DNA sequence of the promoter region of the Mycobacterium smegmatis rpsL gene, which encodes the S12 ribosomal protein, was determined. Primer extension analysis and S1 nuclease protection experiments identified the 5' end of the rpsL mRNA to be 199 bp upstream of the translation initiation codon. The rpsL promoter contained sequences upstream of this start point for transcription that were similar to the canonical hexamers found at the -10 and -35 regions of promoters recognized by Esigma70, the major form of RNA polymerase in Escherichia coli. To define the promoter of the rpsL gene, DNA fragments containing progressive deletions of the upstream region of the rpsL gene were inserted into a plasmid vector containing a promoterless xylE gene. These insertions revealed that the 200 bp of DNA sequence immediately upstream from the translation initiation codon was not essential for promoter function. In addition, 5' deletions removing all but 34 bp upstream of the transcription start point retained greater than 90% promoter activity, suggesting that the -35 hexamer was not essential for promoter activity. To determine which nucleotides were critical for promoter function, oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis and mutagenic PCR amplification were used to produce point mutations in the region upstream of the start point of transcription. Single base substitutions in the -10 hexamer, but not in the -35 hexamer, severely reduced rpsL promoter activity in vivo. Within the -10 hexamer, nucleotide substitutions causing divergence from the E. Coli sigma70 consensus reduced promoter activity. The DNA sequence immediately upstream from the - 10 hexamer contained the TGn motif described as an extended -10 region in prokaryotic promoters. Mutations in this motif, in combination with a transition at either the -38 or -37 position within the -35 hexamer, severely reduced promoter activity, indicating that in the absence of a functional -35 region, the rpsL promoter is dependent on the TGn sequence upstream from the -10 hexamer. Comparison of the nucleotide sequence of the rpsL promoter region of M. smegmatis with the homologous sequences from Mycobacterium leprae, Mycobacterium bovis, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis showed the presence in these slowly growing mycobacterial species of conserved promoter elements a similar distance upstream of the translation initiation codon of the rpsL gene, but these other mycobacterial promoters did not contain the extended -10 motif.
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- T J Kenney
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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Woriax VL, Burkhart W, Spremulli LL. Cloning, sequence analysis and expression of mammalian mitochondrial protein synthesis elongation factor Tu. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1995; 1264:347-56. [PMID: 8547323 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(95)00176-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The bovine liver mitochondrial protein synthesis elongation factor Tu.Ts complex (EF-TU.Tsmt) has been purified and partial peptide sequence information has been obtained for EF-Tumt. A complete cDNA has been obtained encoding bovine EF-Tumt and a nearly complete cDNA has been obtained for human EF-Tumt. The bovine cDNA has a 5' untranslated leader, an open reading frame of 1356 nucleotides and a 3' untranslated region of 189 base pairs. NH2-terminal sequencing of the mature protein indicates that the transit peptide for the mitochondrial localization of this protein is 43 amino acids in length. The human and bovine factors are 95% identical. The deduced protein sequences show considerable identity to bacterial and organellar EF-Tu sequences. At least two genes for EF-Tumt are present in the bovine system. Northern analysis indicates that EF-Tumt is synthesized in all tissues but that the level of expression varies over a wide range. EF-TUmt has been expressed in E. coli as a His-tagged protein and purified to near homogeneity. The expressed form of the factor is active in the poly(U)-directed polymerization of phenylalanine although it is less active than the native EF-Tu.Tsmt complex.
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- V L Woriax
- Department of Chemistry CB #3290, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-3290, USA
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Bocchetta M, Ceccarelli E, Creti R, Sanangelantoni AM, Tiboni O, Cammarano P. Arrangement and nucleotide sequence of the gene (fus) encoding elongation factor G (EF-G) from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex pyrophilus: phylogenetic depth of hyperthermophilic bacteria inferred from analysis of the EF-G/fus sequences. J Mol Evol 1995; 41:803-12. [PMID: 8587125 DOI: 10.1007/bf00173160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The gene fus (for EF-G) of the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex pyrophilus was cloned and sequenced. Unlike the other bacteria, which display the streptomycin-operon arrangement of EF genes (5'-rps12-rps7-fus-tuf-3'), the Aquifex fus gene (700 codons) is not preceded by the two small ribosomal subunit genes although it is still followed by a tuf gene (for EF-Tu). The opposite strand upstream from the EF-G coding locus revealed an open reading frame (ORF) encoding a polypeptide having 52.5% identity with an E. coli protein (the pdxJ gene product) involved in pyridoxine condensation. The Aquifex EF-G was aligned with available homologs representative of Deinococci, high G+C Gram positives, Proteobacteria, cyanobacteria, and several Archaea. Outgroup-rooted phylogenies were constructed from both the amino acid and the DNA sequences using first and second codon positions in the alignments except sites containing synonymous changes. Both datasets and alternative tree-making methods gave a consistent topology, with Aquifex and Thermotoga maritima (a hyperthermophile) as the first and the second deepest offshoots, respectively. However, the robustness of the inferred phylogenies is not impressive. The branching of Aquifex more deeply than Thermotoga and the branching of Thermotoga more deeply than the other taxa examined are given at bootstrap values between 65 and 70% in the fus-based phylogenies, while the EF-G(2)-based phylogenies do not provide a statistically significant level of support (< or = 50% bootstrap confirmation) for the emergence of Thermotoga between Aquifex and the successive offshoot (Thermus genus). At present, therefore, the placement of Aquifex at the root of the bacterial tree, albeit reproducible, can be asserted only with reservation, while the emergence of Thermotoga between the Aquificales and the Deinococci remains (statistically) indeterminate.
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- M Bocchetta
- Istituto Pasteur Fondazione Cenci-Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Biopatologia Umana, Universita di Roma I La Sapienza, Policlinico Umberto I, Italy
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Piersen CE, Prince MA, Augustine ML, Dodson ML, Lloyd RS. Purification and cloning of Micrococcus luteus ultraviolet endonuclease, an N-glycosylase/abasic lyase that proceeds via an imino enzyme-DNA intermediate. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:23475-84. [PMID: 7559510 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.40.23475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Although Micrococcus luteus UV endonuclease has been reported to be an 18-kDa enzyme with possible homology to the 16-kDa endonuclease V from bacteriophage T4 (Gordon, L. K., and Haseltine, W. A. (1980) J. Biol. Chem. 255, 12047-12050; Grafstrom, R. H., Park, L., and Grossman, L. (1982) J. Biol. Chem. 257, 13465-13474), this study describes three independent purification schemes in which M. luteus UV damage-specific or pyrimidine dimer-specific nicking activity was associated with two proteins of apparent molecular masses of 31 and 32 kDa. An 18-kDa contaminant copurified with the doublet through many of the chromatographic steps, but it was determined to be a homolog of Escherichia coli ribosomal protein L6. Edman degradation analyses of the active proteins yielded identical NH2-terminal amino acid sequences. The corresponding gene (pdg, pyrimidine dimer glycosylase) was cloned. The protein bears strong sequence similarities to the E. coli repair proteins endonuclease III and MutY. Nonetheless, traditionally purified M. luteus protein acted exclusively on cis-syn thymine dimers; it was unable to cleave site-specific oligonucleotide substrates containing a trans-syn -I, (6-4), or Dewar thymine dimer, a 5,6-dihydrouracil lesion, or an A:G or A:C mismatch. The UV endonuclease incised cis-syn dimer-containing DNA in a dose-dependent manner and exhibited linear kinetics within that dose range. Enzyme activity was inhibited by the presence of NaCN or NaBH4 with NaBH4 additionally being able to trap a covalent enzyme-substrate product. These last findings confirm that the catalytic mechanism of M. luteus UV endonuclease, like those of other glycosylase/AP lyases, involves an imino intermediate.
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- C E Piersen
- Sealy Center for Molecular Science, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77555-1071, USA
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Santos MA, Tuite MF. The CUG codon is decoded in vivo as serine and not leucine in Candida albicans. Nucleic Acids Res 1995; 23:1481-6. [PMID: 7784200 PMCID: PMC306886 DOI: 10.1093/nar/23.9.1481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 200] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Previous studies have shown that the yeast Candida albicans encodes a unique seryl-tRNA(CAG) that should decode the leucine codon CUG as serine. However, in vitro translation of several different CUG-containing mRNAs in the presence of this unusual seryl-tRNA(CAG) result in an apparent increase in the molecular weight of the encoded polypeptides as judged by SDS-PAGE even though the molecular weight of serine is lower than that of leucine. A possible explanation for this altered electrophoretic mobility is that the CUG codon is decoded as modified serine in vitro. To elucidate the nature of CUG decoding in vivo, a reporter system based on the C. albicans gene (RBP1) encoding rapamycin-binding protein (RBP), coupled to the promoter of the C. albicans TEF3 gene, was utilized. Sequencing and mass-spectrometry analysis of the recombinant RBP expressed in C. albicans demonstrated that the CUG codon was decoded exclusively as serine while the related CUU codon was translated as leucine. A database search revealed that 32 out of the 65 C. albicans gene sequences available have CUG codons in their open reading frames. The CUG-containing genes do not belong to any particular gene family. Thus the amino acid specified by the CUG codon has been reassigned within the mRNAs of C. albicans. We argue here that this unique genetic code change in cellular mRNAs cannot be explained by the 'Codon Reassignment Theory'.
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- M A Santos
- Research School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
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Ceccarelli E, Bocchetta M, Creti R, Sanangelantoni AM, Tiboni O, Cammarano P. Chromosomal organization and nucleotide sequence of the genes for elongation factors EF-1 alpha and EF-2 and ribosomal proteins S7 and S10 of the hyperthermophilic archaeum Desulfurococcus mobilis. MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS : MGG 1995; 246:687-96. [PMID: 7898436 DOI: 10.1007/bf00290714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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The Desulfurococcus mobilis genes fus (encoding EF-2) and tuf (for EF-1 alpha) were cloned and sequenced together with genes for ribosomal proteins S10 (rps10) and S7 (rps7). Unlike Methanococcus, which displays the bacterial-like fus and tuf gene context 5'-rps12-rps7-fus-tuf-3', and similar to Sulfolobus and Pyrococcus, the Desulfurococcus fus gene (734 codons) has a distinct chromosomal location. Moreover, tuf (441 codons) is the promoter-proximal unit of a three-gene cluster comprising the genes rps10 (98 codons) and tRNA(Ser); the arrangement of the cluster is 5'-tuf-91 bp spacer -rps10-138 bp spacer -tRNA(Ser)-3' and the tuf gene is preceded by a canonical archaeal promoter. The D. mobilis gene rps7 (198 codons) is located further upstream from tuf (535 bp 'silent' intergenic spacing) and no rps12 homolog occurs in its immediate vicinity. Also, judging from putative promoter and transcription termination sequences, rps7 appears to be separately transcribed. Analysis of the predicted fus and tuf gene products revealed the three consensus motifs characteristic of GTP-binding proteins, and the fus-encoded EF-2 protein also displayed the consensus sequence required for ADP-ribosylation by Diphtheria toxin. Both EF sequences were definitely crenarchaeal by comparison with available homologs from other Archaea. Outgroup-rooted phylogenies derived from the sequences of ribosomal proteins S10 and S7 yielded the Sulfolobus-Desulfurococcus association at a high bootstrap confidence level.
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- E Ceccarelli
- Instituto Pasteur Fondazione Cenci-Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Biopatologia Umana, Università di Roma I, Policlinico Umberto I, Italy
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Yaskowiak ES, March PE. Small clusters of divergent amino acids surrounding the effector domain mediate the varied phenotypes of EF-G and LepA expression. Mol Microbiol 1995; 15:943-53. [PMID: 7596295 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1995.tb02363.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Elongation factors G, Tu, and related proteins (including LepA) form a distinct subgroup within the GTPase superfamily. This observation is based primarily upon amino acid comparisons of the effector region (G2) of the GTP-binding domain. To examine the functional importance of the highly conserved elongation factor G2 domain a series of chimeric proteins were constructed between Escherichia coli EF-G and Micrococcus luteus EF-G, and between E. coli EF-G and LepA (a protein of unknown function). The M. luteus EF-G/E. coli EF-G hybrid, M. luteus EF-G, and E. coli EF-G efficiently complemented EF-G function in an E. coli strain (PEM101) harbouring a temperature-sensitive mutation in fusA (the gene encoding EF-G). A comparison of the amino acid sequences of the M. luteus EF-G and E. coli EF-G indicated that groups of divergent amino acid residues (amino acids 1-9 and 72-80) were not important for function. LepA and LepA/EF-G chimeric proteins were tested for the ability to complement EF-G function in vivo, for cross-linking to 8-azido-[gamma-32P]-GTP in vitro and for fusidic acid-dependent co-sedimentation with 70S ribosomes. With one exception, all chimeras could be readily cross-linked to azido-GTP in an EF-G-like manner, indicating that hybrid protein construction did not generally result in improperly folded GTP-binding domains. However, the inability of such chimeras to complement EF-G function in vivo indicates that the effector domains are not functionally interchangeable. All LepA/EF-G chimeric proteins were severely defective in fusidic acid-dependent complex formation with 70S ribosomes. A comparison of the amino acid sequences of all three proteins suggests that residues 30-33, 43-48, and 63-66 of E. coli EF-G are important for EF-G specific ribosome-associated function.
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- E S Yaskowiak
- School of Microbiology and Immunology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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Creti R, Sterpetti P, Bocchetta M, Ceccarelli E, Cammarano P. Chromosomal organization and nucleotide sequence of the fus-gene encoding elongation factor 2 (EF-2) of the hyperthermophilic archaeum Pyrococcus woesei. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1995; 126:85-90. [PMID: 7896082 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1995.tb07395.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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A Pyrococcus woesei EcoRI DNA fragment (3400 bp) harbouring the gene fus for elongation factor 2 (EF-2) was cloned and almost completely sequenced. Unlike Methanococcus vannielii (which displays the 'str operon'-like fus and tuf gene context, 5'-rps12-rps7-fus-tuf-3'), and similar to Sulfolobus acidocaldarius and Desulfurococcus mobilis, the Pyrococcus fus gene (732 codons) is unlinked to the rps and tuf genes, and is immediately followed (57 bp intergenic spacing) by an ORF of 106 codons. Both ORFs are preceded by potential archaeal promoters located 52 bp (for fus) and 37 bp (for ORF106) upstream of the putative start codons. The Pyrococcus EF-2(G) equivalent factor is somewhat closer to the eukaryal than to the bacterial homolog, and also shares with the former the C-terminal sequence required for ADP ribosylation of EF-2 by Diphtheria toxin.
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- R Creti
- Istituto Pasteur Fondazione Cenci-Bolognetti, Università di Roma I, Dipartimento di Biopatologia Umana, Italy
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Jermiin LS, Graur D, Lowe RM, Crozier RH. Analysis of directional mutation pressure and nucleotide content in mitochondrial cytochrome b genes. J Mol Evol 1994; 39:160-73. [PMID: 7932780 DOI: 10.1007/bf00163805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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We present a new approach for analyzing directional mutation pressure and nucleotide content in protein-coding genes. Directional mutation pressure, the heterogenicity in the likelihood of different nucleotide substitutions, is used to explain the increasing or decreasing guanine-cytosine content (GC%) in DNA and is represented by microD, in agreement with Sueoka (1962, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 48:582-592). The new method uses simulation to facilitate identification of significant A+T or G+C pressure as well as the comparison of directional mutation pressure among genes, even when they are translated by different genetic codes. We use the method to analyze the evolution of directional mutation pressure and nucleotide content of mitochondrial cytochrome b genes. Results from a survey of 110 taxa indicate that the cytochrome b genes of most taxa are subjected to significant directional mutation pressure and that the gene is subject to A+T pressure in most cases. Only in the anseriform bird Cairina moschata is the cytochrome b gene subject to significant G+C pressure. The GC% at nonsynonymous codon sites decreases proportionately with increasing A+T pressure, and with a slope less than one, indicating a presence of selective constraints. The cytochrome b genes of insects, nematodes, and eumycotes are subject to extreme A+T pressures (microD = 0.123, 0.224, and 0.130) and, in parallel, the GC% of the nonsynonymous codon sites has decreased from about 0.44 in organisms that are not subjected to A+T or G+C pressure to about 0.332, 0.323, and 0.367, respectively. The distribution of taxa according to the GC% at nonsynonymous codon sites and directional mutation pressure supports the notion that variation in these parameters is a phylogenetic component.
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- L S Jermiin
- School of Genetics and Human Variation, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia
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Creti R, Ceccarelli E, Bocchetta M, Sanangelantoni AM, Tiboni O, Palm P, Cammarano P. Evolution of translational elongation factor (EF) sequences: reliability of global phylogenies inferred from EF-1 alpha(Tu) and EF-2(G) proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1994; 91:3255-9. [PMID: 8159735 PMCID: PMC43555 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.91.8.3255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The EF-2 coding genes of the Archaea Pyrococcus woesei and Desulfurococcus mobilis were cloned and sequenced. Global phylogenies were inferred by alternative tree-making methods from available EF-2(G) sequence data and contrasted with phylogenies constructed from the more conserved but shorter EF-1 alpha(Tu) sequences. Both the monophyly (sensu Hennig) of Archaea and their subdivision into the kingdoms Crenarchaeota and Euryarchaeota are consistently inferred by analysis of EF-2(G) sequences, usually at a high bootstrap confidence level. In contrast, EF-1 alpha(Tu) phylogenies tend to be inconsistent with one another and show low bootstrap confidence levels. While evolutionary distance and DNA maximum parsimony analyses of EF-1 alpha(Tu) sequences do show archaeal monophyly, protein parsimony and DNA maximum-likelihood analyses of these data do not. In no case, however, do any of the tree topologies inferred from EF-1 alpha(Tu) sequence analyses receive significant bootstrap support.
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- R Creti
- Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci-Bolognetti, Dipt. Biopatologia Umana, Università di Roma I, Policlinico Umberto I., Italy
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Arcari P, Gallo M, Ianniciello G, Dello Russo A, Bocchini V. The nucleotide sequence of the gene coding for the elongation factor 1 alpha in Sulfolobus solfataricus. Homology of the product with related proteins. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1994; 1217:333-7. [PMID: 8148382 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4781(94)90296-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The cloning and sequencing of the gene coding for the archaebacterial elongation factor 1 alpha (aEF-1 alpha) was performed by screening a Sulfolobus solfataricus genomic library using a probe constructed from the eptapeptide KNMITGA that is conserved in all the EF-1 alpha/EF-Tu known so far. The isolated recombinant phage contained the part of the aEF-1 alpha gene from amino acids 1 to 171. The other part (amino acids 162-435) was obtained through the amplification of the S. solfataricus DNA by PCR. The codon usage by the aEF-1 alpha gene showed a preference for triplets ending in A and/or T. This behavior was almost identical to that of the S. acidocaldarius EF-1 alpha gene but differed greatly from that of EF-1 alpha/EF-Tu genes in other archaebacteria eukaryotes and eubacteria. The translated protein is made of 435 amino acid residues and contains sequence motifs for the binding of GTP, tRNA and ribosome. Alignments of aEF-1 alpha with several EF-1 alpha/EF-Tu revealed that aEF-1 alpha is more similar to its eukaryotic than to its eubacterial counterparts.
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- P Arcari
- Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biotecnologie Mediche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy
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Ludwig W, Neumaier J, Klugbauer N, Brockmann E, Roller C, Jilg S, Reetz K, Schachtner I, Ludvigsen A, Bachleitner M. Phylogenetic relationships of Bacteria based on comparative sequence analysis of elongation factor Tu and ATP-synthase beta-subunit genes. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1994; 64:285-305. [PMID: 8085791 DOI: 10.1007/bf00873088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Comparative sequence analyses were performed on 14 genes encoding bacterial elongation factors EF-Tu and 7 genes encoding the beta-subunit of bacterial F1F0 type ATP-synthases. The corresponding predicted amino acid sequences were compared with published primary structures of homologous molecules. Phylogenetic trees were reconstructed from both data sets of aligned protein sequences and from an equivalent selection of 16S rRNA sequences by applying distance matrix and maximum parsimony methods. The EF-Tu data were in very good agreement with the rRNA data, although the resolution within the EF-Tu tree was reduced at certain phylogenetic levels. The resolution power of the ATPase beta-subunit sequence data were more reduced than those of the EF-Tu data. In comparison with the 16S rRNA tree there are minor differences in the order of adjacent branchings within the ATPase beta-subunit tree.
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- W Ludwig
- Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Technische Universität München, Germany
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De Vendittis E, Amatruda MR, Masullo M, Bocchini V. Cloning and sequencing of the gene encoding thermostable elongation factor 2 in Sulfolobus solfataricus. Gene 1993; 136:41-8. [PMID: 8294039 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(93)90445-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The gene (aEF-2) coding for the translation elongation factor 2 (aEF-2) in the thermoacidophilic archaebacterium, Sulfolobus solfataricus, has been cloned and sequenced. The deduced primary structure of aEF-2 is composed of 735 amino acids (aa), excluding the Met start residue. There are no Cys residues and the calculated M(r) is 81,699. In the coding region of aEF-2, the high A + T content greatly influences the codon usage. From the alignment of the primary structure of aEF-2 with that of the analogous factors from the three kingdoms, aa identities were derived. The greatest identity (82%) was found with EF-2 from Sulfolobus acidocaldarius; lower values were observed with other archaebacterial EF-2 (45-47%), eukaryotic EF-2 (38-40%) and with the functional eubacterial analogue EF-G (28-31%). aEF-2 possesses the consensus sequences required for a GTP-binding protein and the four regions which are supposed to be involved in the functional regulation of EF-2/EF-G. These data should have phylogenetic implications.
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- E De Vendittis
- Dipartimento di Biochemica e Biotecnologie Mediche, Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
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Nair J, Rouse DA, Bai GH, Morris SL. The rpsL gene and streptomycin resistance in single and multiple drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Mol Microbiol 1993; 10:521-7. [PMID: 7968530 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1993.tb00924.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The recent emergence of indolent and rapidly fatal drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis has renewed interest in defining the molecular mechanisms of drug resistance in the tubercle bacilli. In this report, we have examined the mechanism of resistance to streptomycin (Sm) in M. tuberculosis through the cloning and nucleotide sequence analysis of the gene encoding the ribosomal S12 protein (rpsL gene) from streptomycin-resistant strains and their streptomycin-sensitive parental strains. We have demonstrated that five singly SmR M. tuberculosis strains and an SmR isolate that has reduced sensitivity to multiple antibiotics have identical point mutations at codon 43 of the rpsL gene. Mutations at this same site confer SmR in Escherichia coli. In contrast, two other multiple drug-resistant M. tuberculosis strains that are resistant to Sm have rpsL genes that have the same nucleotide sequence as their drug-sensitive parent strains, suggesting that different resistance mechanisms are involved in these strains.
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- J Nair
- Laboratory of Mycobacteria, United States Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland 20892
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Finken M, Kirschner P, Meier A, Wrede A, Böttger EC. Molecular basis of streptomycin resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: alterations of the ribosomal protein S12 gene and point mutations within a functional 16S ribosomal RNA pseudoknot. Mol Microbiol 1993; 9:1239-46. [PMID: 7934937 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1993.tb01253.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 265] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Multidrug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis have resulted in several recent outbreaks. Recognition of drug resistance is important both for treatment and to prevent further transmission. Here we use molecular biology techniques to study the basis of streptomycin resistance in single and multidrug-resistant M. tuberculosis. We demonstrate that streptomycin resistance is associated with mutations implicated in ribosomal resistance. The mutations found either lead to amino acid changes in ribosomal protein S12 or alter the primary structure of the 16S rRNA. The 16S rRNA region mutated perturbs a pseudoknot structure in a region which has been linked to ribosomal S12 protein.
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MESH Headings
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Southern
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Bacterial/analysis
- DNA, Bacterial/genetics
- Drug Resistance, Microbial/genetics
- Drug Resistance, Multiple/genetics
- Genes, Bacterial
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis/drug effects
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis/genetics
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis/metabolism
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Point Mutation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/chemistry
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics
- Ribosomal Proteins/genetics
- Ribosomes/drug effects
- Ribosomes/metabolism
- Streptomycin/toxicity
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- M Finken
- Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany
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Larkin R, Guilfoyle T. The second largest subunit of RNA polymerase II from Arabidopsis thaliana. Nucleic Acids Res 1993; 21:1038. [PMID: 8451172 PMCID: PMC309244 DOI: 10.1093/nar/21.4.1038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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- R Larkin
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia 65211
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Nair J, Rouse D, Morris S. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the ribosomal S12 gene of Mycobacterium intracellulare. Nucleic Acids Res 1993; 21:1039. [PMID: 8451173 PMCID: PMC309245 DOI: 10.1093/nar/21.4.1039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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- J Nair
- Laboratory of Mycobacteria, US Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Honoré N, Bergh S, Chanteau S, Doucet-Populaire F, Eiglmeier K, Garnier T, Georges C, Launois P, Limpaiboon T, Newton S. Nucleotide sequence of the first cosmid from the Mycobacterium leprae genome project: structure and function of the Rif-Str regions. Mol Microbiol 1993; 7:207-14. [PMID: 8446028 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1993.tb01112.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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The nucleotide sequence of cosmid B1790, carrying the Rif-Str regions of the Mycobacterium leprae chromosome, has been determined. Twelve open reading frames were identified in the 36716bp sequence, representing 40% of the coding capacity. Five ribosomal proteins, two elongation factors and the beta and beta' subunits of RNA polymerase have been characterized and two novel genes were found. One of these encodes a member of the so-called ABC family of ATP-binding proteins while the other appears to encode an enzyme involved in repairing genomic lesions caused by free radicals. This finding may well be significant as M. leprae, an intracellular pathogen, lives within macrophages.
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- N Honoré
- Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire Bactérienne, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Kuwano Y, Olvera J, Wool I. The primary structure of rat ribosomal protein S5. A ribosomal protein present in the rat genome in a single copy. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)74040-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Cousineau B, Cerpa C, Lefebvre J, Cedergren R. The sequence of the gene encoding elongation factor Tu from Chlamydia trachomatis compared with those of other organisms. Gene 1992; 120:33-41. [PMID: 1398121 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(92)90006-b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Nucleotide (nt) sequences encoding the elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu), tRNA(Thr) and tRNA(Trp) from Chlamydia trachomatis have been determined. The environment of the EF-Tu-encoding gene (tuf), between two tRNA gene sequences, suggests that it is part of a tufB locus. The nt sequence and the deduced amino acid (aa) sequence were aligned with comparable sequences from other organisms and the resulting data bases were used to infer phylogenies. Phylogenetic trees based on aa sequences and nt sequences are similar, but not completely congruent with rRNA gene-based phylogenies. Both the nt and aa sequence trees concur on the early divergence of Thermotoga and Chlamydia from the bacterial root. The aa alignment highlights the presence of four unique Cys residues in the chlamydial sequence which are found at strictly conserved positions in other sequences. Further peculiarities of the chlamydial and eubacterial sequences have been mapped to the X-ray crystallographic structure of the protein.
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- B Cousineau
- Département de Biochimie, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada
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Carlin NI, Löfdahl S, Magnusson M. Monoclonal antibodies specific for elongation factor Tu and complete nucleotide sequence of the tuf gene in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Infect Immun 1992; 60:3136-42. [PMID: 1639483 PMCID: PMC257293 DOI: 10.1128/iai.60.8.3136-3142.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Monoclonal antibodies against mycobacterial antigens were produced by immunizing LOU/C rats with live Mycobacterium bovis BCG. The antibodies were characterized by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis followed by Western blotting (immunoblotting). One antibody, MAMB 2, reactive with a 47-kDa protein was used to screen a lambda gt11 M. tuberculosis gene library (R. A. Young, B. R. Bloom, C. M. Grosskinsky, J. Ivanji, D. Thomas, and R. W. Davis, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 82:2583-2587, 1985). Three recombinant phages reactive with MAMB 2 in plaque lysates were isolated, and part of the insert was sequenced. The mycobacterial inserts were all expressed as proteins fused with beta-galactosidase when the phages were induced as lysogens in Escherichia coli. The entire M. tuberculosis tuf gene was obtained by screening the lambda gt11 library with a DNA probe specific for the primary clones. A phage isolated from this screening was able to express the native protein in E. coli when introduced as a lysogen. A comparison of the entire gene sequence and the deduced protein sequence with the EMBL DNA and Swiss-Prot protein data libraries revealed strong homologies with elongation factors of bacteria, yeast mitochondria, and a plant chloroplast.
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- N I Carlin
- Department for Vaccine Development and Research, National Bacteriological Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
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Cammarano P, Palm P, Creti R, Ceccarelli E, Sanangelantoni AM, Tiboni O. Early evolutionary relationships among known life forms inferred from elongation factor EF-2/EF-G sequences: phylogenetic coherence and structure of the archaeal domain. J Mol Evol 1992; 34:396-405. [PMID: 1602493 DOI: 10.1007/bf00162996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Phylogenies were inferred from both the gene and the protein sequences of the translational elongation factor termed EF-2 (for Archaea and Eukarya) and EF-G (for Bacteria). All treeing methods used (distance-matrix, maximum likelihood, and parsimony), including evolutionary parsimony, support the archaeal tree and disprove the "eocyte tree" (i.e., the polyphyly and paraphyly of the Archaea). Distance-matrix trees derived from both the amino acid and the DNA sequence alignments (first and second codon positions) showed the Archaea to be a monophyletic-holophyletic grouping whose deepest bifurcation divides a Sulfolobus branch from a branch comprising Methanococcus, Halobacterium, and Thermoplasma. Bootstrapped distance-matrix treeing confirmed the monophyly-holophyly of Archaea in 100% of the samples and supported the bifurcation of Archaea into a Sulfolobus branch and a methanogen-halophile branch in 97% of the samples. Similar phylogenies were inferred by maximum likelihood and by maximum (protein and DNA) parsimony. DNA parsimony trees essentially identical to those inferred from first and second codon positions were derived from alternative DNA data sets comprising either the first or the second position of each codon. Bootstrapped DNA parsimony supported the monophyly-holophyly of Archaea in 100% of the bootstrap samples and confirmed the division of Archaea into a Sulfolobus branch and a methanogen-halophile branch in 93% of the bootstrap samples. Distance-matrix and maximum likelihood treeing under the constraint that branch lengths must be consistent with a molecular clock placed the root of the universal tree between the Bacteria and the bifurcation of Archaea and Eukarya. The results support the division of Archaea into the kingdoms Crenarchaeota (corresponding to the Sulfolobus branch and Euryarchaeota). This division was not confirmed by evolutionary parsimony, which identified Halobacterium rather than Sulfolobus as the deepest offspring within the Archaea.
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- P Cammarano
- Istituto Pasteur-Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Dipartimento di Biopatologia Umana, Università di Roma, La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
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The genetic code, formerly thought to be frozen, is now known to be in a state of evolution. This was first shown in 1979 by Barrell et al. (G. Barrell, A. T. Bankier, and J. Drouin, Nature [London] 282:189-194, 1979), who found that the universal codons AUA (isoleucine) and UGA (stop) coded for methionine and tryptophan, respectively, in human mitochondria. Subsequent studies have shown that UGA codes for tryptophan in Mycoplasma spp. and in all nonplant mitochondria that have been examined. Universal stop codons UAA and UAG code for glutamine in ciliated protozoa (except Euplotes octacarinatus) and in a green alga, Acetabularia. E. octacarinatus uses UAA for stop and UGA for cysteine. Candida species, which are yeasts, use CUG (leucine) for serine. Other departures from the universal code, all in nonplant mitochondria, are CUN (leucine) for threonine (in yeasts), AAA (lysine) for asparagine (in platyhelminths and echinoderms), UAA (stop) for tyrosine (in planaria), and AGR (arginine) for serine (in several animal orders) and for stop (in vertebrates). We propose that the changes are typically preceded by loss of a codon from all coding sequences in an organism or organelle, often as a result of directional mutation pressure, accompanied by loss of the tRNA that translates the codon. The codon reappears later by conversion of another codon and emergence of a tRNA that translates the reappeared codon with a different assignment. Changes in release factors also contribute to these revised assignments. We also discuss the use of UGA (stop) as a selenocysteine codon and the early history of the code.
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- S Osawa
- Department of Biology, Nagoya University, Japan
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An intergenic G-rich region in Leishmania tarentolae kinetoplast maxicircle DNA is a pan-edited cryptogene encoding ribosomal protein S12. Mol Cell Biol 1992. [PMID: 1370342 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.12.1.56] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Six short G-rich intergenic regions in the maxicircle of Leishmania tarentolae are conserved in location and polarity in two other kinetoplastid species. We show here that G-rich region 6 (G6) represents a pan-edited cryptogene which contains at least two domains edited independently in a 3'-to-5' manner connected by short unedited regions. In the completely edited RNA, 117 uridines are added at 49 sites and 32 uridines are deleted at 13 sites, creating a translated 85-amino-acid polypeptide. Similar polypeptides are probably encoded by pan-edited G6 transcripts in two other species. The G6 polypeptide has significant sequence similarity to the family of S12 ribosomal proteins. A minicircle-encoded gRNA overlaps 12 editing sites in G6 mRNA, and chimeric gRNA/mRNA molecules were shown to exist, in agreement with the transesterification model for editing.
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Maslov DA, Sturm NR, Niner BM, Gruszynski ES, Peris M, Simpson L. An intergenic G-rich region in Leishmania tarentolae kinetoplast maxicircle DNA is a pan-edited cryptogene encoding ribosomal protein S12. Mol Cell Biol 1992; 12:56-67. [PMID: 1370342 PMCID: PMC364069 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.12.1.56-67.1992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Six short G-rich intergenic regions in the maxicircle of Leishmania tarentolae are conserved in location and polarity in two other kinetoplastid species. We show here that G-rich region 6 (G6) represents a pan-edited cryptogene which contains at least two domains edited independently in a 3'-to-5' manner connected by short unedited regions. In the completely edited RNA, 117 uridines are added at 49 sites and 32 uridines are deleted at 13 sites, creating a translated 85-amino-acid polypeptide. Similar polypeptides are probably encoded by pan-edited G6 transcripts in two other species. The G6 polypeptide has significant sequence similarity to the family of S12 ribosomal proteins. A minicircle-encoded gRNA overlaps 12 editing sites in G6 mRNA, and chimeric gRNA/mRNA molecules were shown to exist, in agreement with the transesterification model for editing.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Composition
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Northern
- Cells, Cultured
- DNA, Circular/genetics
- DNA, Kinetoplast
- DNA, Protozoan/genetics
- Guanine
- Introns
- Leishmania/genetics
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Poly A
- RNA
- RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional
- RNA, Guide, Kinetoplastida
- RNA, Protozoan/genetics
- RNA, Protozoan/metabolism
- Ribosomal Proteins/genetics
- Sequence Alignment
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- D A Maslov
- Department of Biology, University of California, Los Angeles 90024
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Creti R, Citarella F, Tiboni O, Sanangelantoni A, Palm P, Cammarano P. Nucleotide sequence of a DNA region comprising the gene for elongation factor 1 alpha (EF-1 alpha) from the ultrathermophilic archaeote Pyrococcus woesei: phylogenetic implications. J Mol Evol 1991; 33:332-42. [PMID: 1723106 DOI: 10.1007/bf02102864] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The gene encoding elongation factor 1 alpha (EF-1 alpha, 1290 bp) of the ultrathermophilic, sulfur-reducing archaeote Pyrococcus woesei was localized within a Bg/II fragment of chromosomal DNA. Sequence analysis showed that the EF-1 alpha gene is the upstream unit of a three-gene cluster comprising the genes for ribosomal protein S10 (306 bp) and transfer RNAser (GGA). The three genes follow each other immediately in the order EF-1 alpha.S10.tRNA(ser) after a putative promoter located 55 bp upstream of the EF-1 alpha gene. Alignment of the derived EF-1 alpha sequence with the corresponding sequences from Eukarya, Bacteria/organelles, and with available archaeal sequences (Sulfolobus, Thermococcus, Methanococcus, Halobacterium) showed that Pyrococcus EF-1 alpha is highly homologous (89% identity) to Thermococcus celer EF-1 alpha, both being strikingly more similar to eukaryotic EF-1 alpha than to bacterial EF-Tu. Unrooted dendrograms computed from aligned sequences by distance matrix and DNA parsimony methods, including evolutionary parsimony, showed the Archaea to be a monophyletic-holophyletic cluster closer to Eukarya than to Bacteria. Both distance matrix and DNA parsimony--although not evolutionary parsimony--support the partition of the known archaeal lineages between the kingdoms Crenarchaeota and Euryarchaeota, and the affiliation of the Pyrococcus-Thermococcus lineage to the Euryarchaeota, of which it is the most primitive offspring. A closer relation of Pyrococcus to Euryarchaeota than to Crenarchaeota was also inferred from sequence analysis of S10 ribosomal proteins.
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- R Creti
- Dipartimento di Biopatologia Umana, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Policlinico Umberto I., Italy
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Tiboni O, Cantoni R, Creti R, Cammarano P, Sanangelantoni AM. Phylogenetic depth of Thermotoga maritima inferred from analysis of the fus gene: amino acid sequence of elongation factor G and organization of the Thermotoga str operon. J Mol Evol 1991; 33:142-51. [PMID: 1920450 DOI: 10.1007/bf02193628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The gene (fus) coding for elongation factor G (EF-G) of the extremely thermophilic eubacterium Thermotoga maritima was identified and sequenced. The EF-G coding sequence (2046 bp) was found to lie in an operon-like structure between the ribosomal protein S7 gene (rpsG) and the elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) gene (tuf). The rpsG, fus, and tuf genes follow each other immediately in that order, which corresponds to the order of the homologous genes in the str operon of Escherichia coli. The derived amino acid sequence of the EF-G protein (682 residues) was aligned with the homologous sequences of other eubacteria, eukaryotes (hamster), and archaebacteria (Methanococcus vannielii). Unrooted phylogenetic dendrograms, obtained both from the amino acid and the nucleotide sequence alignments, using a variety of methods, lend further support to the notion that the (present) root of the (eu)bacterial tree lies between Thermotoga and the other bacterial lineages.
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- O Tiboni
- Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia A. Buzzati-Traverso, Universita di Pavia, Italy
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Bacillus subtilis and related gram-positive bacteria which have low to moderate genomic G + C contents are unable to efficiently translate mRNA derived from gram-negative bacteria, whereas Escherichia coli and other gram-negative bacteria are able to translate mRNA from both types of organisms. This phenomenon has been termed translational species specificity. Ribosomes from the low-G + C-content group (low-G + C group) of gram-positive organisms (B. subtilis and relatives) lack an equivalent to Escherichia ribosomal protein S1. The requirement for S1 for translation in E. coli (G. van Dieijen, P. H. van Knippenberg, J. van Duin, B. Koekman, and P. H. Pouwels, Mol. Gen. Genet. 153:75-80, 1977) and its specific role (A.R. Subramanian, Trends Biochem. Sci. 9:491-494, 1984) have been proposed. The group of gram-positive bacteria characterized by high genomic G + C content (formerly Actinomyces species and relatives) contain S1, in contrast to the low-G + C group (K. Mikulik, J. Smardova, A. Jiranova, and P. Branny, Eur. J. Biochem. 155:557-563, 1986). It is not known whether members of the high-G + C group are translationally specific, although there is evidence that one genus, Streptomyces, can express Escherichia genes in vivo (M. J. Bibb and S. N. Cohen, Mol. Gen. Genet. 187:265-277, 1985; J. L. Schottel, M. J. Bibb, and S. N. Cohen, J. Bacteriol. 146:360-368, 1981). In order to determine whether the organisms of this group are translationally specific, we examined the in vitro translational characteristics of a member of the high-G + C group, Micrococcus luteus, whose genomic G + C content is 73%. A semipurified coupled transcription-translation system of M. luteus translates Escherichia mRNA as well as Bacillus and Micrococcus mRNA. Therefore, M. luteus is translationally nonspecific and resembles E. coli rather than B. subtilis in its translational characteristics.
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- M A Farwell
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720
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Ladefoged SÃA, Christiansen G. Analysis of the nucleotide sequence of theMycoplasma hominis tufgene and its flanking region. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1991. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1991.tb04518.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Identification and characterization of RNA polymerase sigma factor from Micrococcus luteus. J Biol Chem 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)49934-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Bourne HR, Sanders DA, McCormick F. The GTPase superfamily: conserved structure and molecular mechanism. Nature 1991; 349:117-27. [PMID: 1898771 DOI: 10.1038/349117a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2540] [Impact Index Per Article: 77.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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GTPases are conserved molecular switches, built according to a common structural design. Rapidly accruing knowledge of individual GTPases--crystal structures, biochemical properties, or results of molecular genetic experiments--support and generate hypotheses relating structure to function in other members of the diverse family of GTPases.
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- H R Bourne
- Department of Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0450
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Auer J, Spicker G, Mayerhofer L, Pühler G, Böck A. Organisation and Nucleotide Sequence of a Gene Cluster Comprising the Translation Elongation Factor 1α from Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. Syst Appl Microbiol 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/s0723-2020(11)80356-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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Zuerner RL, Charon NW. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the Leptospira biflexa serovar patoc rpsL and rpsG genes. J Bacteriol 1990; 172:6165-8. [PMID: 2211535 PMCID: PMC526950 DOI: 10.1128/jb.172.10.6165-6168.1990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The Leptospira biflexa rpsL and rpsG genes were sequenced. Although similar in many respects, proteins encoded by these L. biflexa genes had several unusual features when compared with homologous proteins of other organisms. Unlike the rpsL genes of other eubacteria, the L. biflexa rpsL gene is adjacent to a rpoC-like gene.
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- R L Zuerner
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown 26506
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Schoenlein PV, Gallman LS, Winkler ME, Ely B. Nucleotide sequence of the Caulobacter crescentus flaF and flbT genes and an analysis of codon usage in organisms with G + C-rich genomes. Gene 1990; 93:17-25. [PMID: 1699845 DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(90)90130-j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The Caulobacter crescentus flaFG region encodes trans-acting, regulatory factors that modulate flagellin synthesis during flagellum biogenesis. In this study, sequence analysis and experiments utilizing a promoterless cat gene demonstrated that the flaF and flbT genes have overlapping transcripts with the same orientation. In addition, the 5' ends of the flgL and flbA genes were located. A sequence resembling an Rho-factor-independent terminator was found in the 3' region of the flaF gene. This region was uniquely A + T-rich and the encoded mRNA contained an inverted repeat sequence which could form a stable stem-loop structure followed by nine U-residues. The codon usage of C. crescentus genes was examined and indicated a preference for specific codons from each of the synonymous codon groups. Furthermore, comparison to the codon usage of other organisms with G + C-rich genomes indicated a strong preference for the same codons preferred by C. crescentus.
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- P V Schoenlein
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia 29208
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