title: Expression and nucleotide sequence of a plasmid-determined divalent cation efflux system from Alcaligenes eutrophus.
abstract: Resistance to cobalt, zinc, and cadmium specified by the czc determinant on plasmid pMOL30 in Alcaligenes eutrophus results from a cation efflux system. Five membrane-bound polypeptides that were expressed in Escherichia coli from this determinant under the control of a phage T7 promoter were assigned to four open reading frames identified in the nucleotide sequence of the 6881-base-pair fragment containing the czc putative operon. The contributions of the polypeptides to the cation efflux system were analyzed with deletion derivatives of the 6.9-kilobase fragment, constructed, and expressed in E. coli under the control of the phage T7 promoter and in A. eutrophus under the control of the lac promoter.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Illinois, College of Medicine, Chicago 60680.
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Nies
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nies
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Silver
mesh_terms: D000421:Alcaligenes / Q000235:genetics*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D001692:Biological Transport; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D002413:Cations, Divalent; D002872:Chromosome Deletion; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D010957:Plasmids; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D015183:Restriction Mapping
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D002413:Cations, Divalent