title: Molecular cloning and nucleotide sequence of the colonization factor antigen I gene of Escherichia coli.
abstract: The colonization factor antigen I (CFA/I) gene has been isolated and sequenced. The amino acid sequence of CFA/I deduced from the nucleotide sequence is composed of 170 amino acids. The first 23 amino acids are considered to be the signal peptide of the CFA/I protein since they are not present in the protein sequence. Among the remaining amino acids, only two are different from the protein sequence: amino acid position 76 is an aspartic acid instead of an asparagine, and position 97 is a serine instead of an alanine. The CFA/I gene has a typical Shine-Dalgarno sequence located 10 base pairs (bp) upstream from the initiation codon. The sequence TACAAT located 48 bp upstream from the initiation codon was tentatively designated the -10 sequence of the CFA/I gene promoter. No sequences homologous to the consensus -35 promoter sequence was found. A pair of inverted repeat sequences followed by a stretch of eight A's are located 45 bp downstream from the termination codon of the CFA/I gene; this region may be a rho-independent transcriptional terminator.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis 46223.
authors.forename: T K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Karjalainen
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: So
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics*; D036781:Fimbriae Proteins; D010861:Fimbriae, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis*; D005796:Genes; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010957:Plasmids
chemical_list: D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; C022924:colonization factor antigens; D036781:Fimbriae Proteins