title: Construction and properties of a triprotein containing the high-affinity nickel transporter of Alcaligenes eutrophus.
abstract: The high-affinity nickel transporter of Alcaligenes eutrophus H16 is encoded by gene hoxN, which maps within the hydrogenase gene cluster of megaplasmid pHG1. A tripartite gene fusion was constructed, consisting of (i) the Escherichia coli lacZ gene for beta-galactosidase, (ii) a segment encoding an endoproteolytically cleavable peptide, and (iii) the A. eutrophus gene hoxN. An E. coli strain harboring this construct (plasmid pCH307) efficiently produced the corresponding triprotein upon induction. A broad-host-range derivative of pCH307 was shown to complement an A. eutrophus HoxN- mutant.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Pflanzenphysiologie und Mikrobiologie, Freien Universität Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wolfram
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Eitinger
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Friedrich
mesh_terms: D000421:Alcaligenes / Q000378:metabolism*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D001483:Base Sequence; D001692:Biological Transport; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D015964:Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D009532:Nickel / Q000378:metabolism*; D010957:Plasmids
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D009532:Nickel