title: Identification of the gene encoding transcription factor NusG of Thermus thermophilus.
abstract: The nusG gene of Thermus thermophilus HB8 was cloned and sequenced. It is located 388 bp downstream from tufB, which is followed by the genes for ribosomal proteins L11 and L1. No equivalent to secE preceding nusG, as in Escherichia coli, could be detected. The nusG gene product was overproduced in E. coli. A rabbit antiserum raised against the purified recombinant NusG reacted exclusively with one protein band of T. thermophilus crude extracts in Western blot (immunoblot) analyses, and no cross-reaction of the antiserum with E. coli NusG was observed. Recombinant NusG and the reacting T. thermophilus wild-type protein had identical sizes on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels. T. thermophilus and E. coli NusG have 45% identical and 22.5% similar amino acids, and similarities between the two proteins are most pronounced in carboxy-terminal regions. The T. thermophilus nusG gene could not rescue a nusG-deficient E. coli mutant strain.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Biochemie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Heinrich
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Schröder
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Erdmann
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Hartmann
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D015153:Blotting, Western; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D005798:Genes, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D005816:Genetic Complementation Test; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D016963:Thermus thermophilus / Q000235:genetics*; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D014157:Transcription Factors; C078391:nusG protein, Thermus thermophilus