title: Cloning and nucleotide sequence of bisC, the structural gene for biotin sulfoxide reductase in Escherichia coli.
abstract: Clones of the Escherichia coli bisC locus have been isolated by complementing a bisC mutant for growth with d-biotin d-sulfoxide as a biotin source. The complementation properties of deletions and Tn5 insertions located the bisC gene to a 3.7-kilobase-pair (kbp) segment, 3.3 kbp of which has been sequenced. A single open reading frame of 2,178 bp, capable of encoding a polypeptide of molecular weight 80,905, was found. In vitro transcription of plasmids carrying the wild-type sequence and deletion and insertion mutants showed that BisC complementation correlated perfectly with production of a polypeptide whose measured molecular weight (79,000) does not differ significantly from 80,905.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, California 94305.
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Pierson
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Campbell
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D005816:Genetic Complementation Test; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D010088:Oxidoreductases / Q000235:genetics*; D015183:Restriction Mapping
chemical_list: D010088:Oxidoreductases; C019792:biotin sulfoxide reductase