title: Characterization of the Escherichia coli protein-export gene secB.
abstract: The Escherichia coli secB gene product is required for normal export of envelope proteins out of the cell cytoplasm. In this report, we present the identification and nucleotide sequence of the secB coding sequence. The secB structural gene overlaps almost completely with a predicted open reading frame (ORF) that is encoded on the opposite strand. To establish the identity of the secB ORF, we characterized a secB mutation that caused total loss of secB function, based upon its phenotype. This mutation resulted from a nucleotide change that caused an ochre mutation in one ORF (the secB gene) and a silent (no amino acid change) codon change in the opposite ORF.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Kumamoto
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Nault
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D004274:DNA, Recombinant; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics*; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D010957:Plasmids; D011233:Precipitin Tests
chemical_list: D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins; D004274:DNA, Recombinant