Cloning of a gene from Bacillus cereus with homology to the mreB gene from Escherichia coli.
We have cloned and sequenced a gene coding for a putative shape-determining protein (MreB) highly homologous to the mreB gene product of Escherichia coli. The amino acid (aa) identity was 53% and the similarity 72%. The gene is expressed early in the logarithmic phase. The aa sequence comparison showed that the protein, like the E. coli MreB, has structural similarity to actin and heat-shock protein Hsc70 encoded by a new super-gene family.
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Biotechnology Centre of Oslo, Norway.
Naterstad
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Kristensen
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Lopez
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Bork
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Kolstø
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001409:Bacillus cereus / Q000235:genetics*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D002417:Cattle; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics*; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010957:Plasmids; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; C078473:MreB protein, E coli