title: Use of degenerate primers for polymerase chain reaction cloning and sequencing of the Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis recA gene.
abstract: Two particularly well-conserved stretches in the RecA protein sequences were chosen as templates to synthesize degenerate oligonucleotides, which were used in polymerase chain reaction to amplify an internal recA DNA fragment of Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis ML3. Using this fragment, we recovered and sequenced the entire lactococcal recA gene. The end of an open reading frame present upstream of the recA gene shows strong homology with formamidopyrimidine-DNA-glycosylase, a protein involved in DNA repair.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Génétique Microbienne, Institut National de la Recherche, Agronomique, Jouy en Josas, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Duwat
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Ehrlich
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gruss
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001412:Bacillus subtilis / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D015342:DNA Probes; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D013294:Lactococcus lactis / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*; D011938:Rec A Recombinases / Q000235:genetics; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D015342:DNA Probes; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D011938:Rec A Recombinases