title: Regulation and sequence of the Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942 groESL operon, encoding a cyanobacterial chaperonin.
abstract: The molecular chaperonins such as GroEL are now widely regarded as essential components for the stabilization of integral membrane or secretory proteins before membrane insertion or translocation, as well as for the assembly of macromolecular complexes such as ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase. The groESL operon of Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942 was cloned as two independent lacZ-groEL translational fusions by immunoscreening a lambda ZAP genomic expression library and then sequenced. The derived amino acid sequences of the GroES and GroEL proteins demonstrated very high levels of amino acid identity with cognate chaperonins from bacteria and chloroplasts. The bicistronic 2.4-kilobase transcript from this operon, barely detectable in RNA preparations from cells grown at 30 degrees C, accumulated approximately 120-fold in preparations from cells grown for 20 min at 45 degrees C. Under these conditions, GroEL protein accumulated to 10-fold-higher levels. Primer extension analysis was used to identify a cyanobacterial heat shock promoter located at -81 base pairs from the groES initiation codon. The transcriptional -10 and -35 sequences differ slightly from Escherichia coli consensus heat shock promoter sequences.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Webb
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Sherman
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D018833:Chaperonins; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D000458:Cyanobacteria / Q000235:genetics*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D015723:Gene Library; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009876:Operon; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D011506:Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; D011506:Proteins; D018833:Chaperonins