title: Cloning and sequence analysis of the fermentative alcohol-dehydrogenase-encoding gene of Escherichia coli.
abstract: A 6-kb fragment of DNA, which complemented defects in the alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH)-encoding gene (adhE) of Escherichia coli, was cloned into a multicopy vector. Both ADH and coenzyme-A-linked acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (ACDH) activities were encoded by the plasmid, pHIL8. The adhE gene was identified as an open reading frame of 891 codons encoding an Mr 96,008 protein (minus the initiating methionine). Codon usage analysis indicates that adhE should be highly expressed. This gene shows no significant homology to any previously sequenced ADH-encoding gene.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 62901.
authors.forename: P E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Goodlove
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Cunningham
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Clark
mesh_terms: D000426:Alcohol Dehydrogenase / Q000235:genetics*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003062:Codon / Q000235:genetics; D003360:Cosmids; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D005285:Fermentation; D015723:Gene Library; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D005838:Genotype; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D003062:Codon; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D000426:Alcohol Dehydrogenase