title: Characterization of HU-like protein from Bifidobacterium longum.
abstract: A HU-like protein (HBl) of Bifidobacterium longum was purified and characterized. HBl is heat-stable and acid-resistant, and has a molecular weight of about 9.1 kDa as estimated by its mobility on electrophoresis. HBl is intermediate in basicity (pI 9.8) between the HU-1 and HU-2 proteins of Escherichia coli, and is dissociated from a calf thymus DNA-cellulose column at 300-400 mM NaCl. Its amino acid composition shows many similarities with that of E coli HU. The NH2-terminal amino acid sequence of HBl also shows significant similarities to the consensus sequence deduced from the sequences of eleven HU-like proteins from prokaryotic sources. Chemical crosslinking analysis indicated that the HBl protein predominantly forms a homotypic dimer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Genetics, Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Goshima
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kano
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Imamoto
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D001644:Bifidobacterium / Q000235:genetics*; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000378:metabolism; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C040330:histone-like protein HU, bacteria