title: Cloning and expression of the Campylobacter jejuni glyA gene in Escherichia coli.
abstract: Genetic studies of Campylobacter jejuni are greatly hampered by the lack of genetic markers and an established classical gene transfer mechanism between strains of this species. To facilitate future genetic studies and to provide a recombinant DNA approach for analyzing genes of C. jejuni, we constructed an extensive genomic library of a pathogenic C. jejuni strain TGH9011 (serotype 0:3) using pBR322. We report the isolation of a number of recombinant plasmids containing the complete structural gene of glyA, that encodes serine hydroxymethyltransferase (SHMT) of C. jejuni. Escherichia coli cells containing this multicopy recombinant plasmid with the glyA gene produce high levels of SHMT. The SHMT-encoding fragment was identified by subcloning and functional complementation. The expression of the C. jejuni glyA gene was probably via transcription initiated from its own promoter.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University of Toronto, Canada.
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bingham
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kibue
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Nayudu
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Penner
mesh_terms: D002168:Campylobacter fetus / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics*; D005796:Genes; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D012696:Glycine Hydroxymethyltransferase / Q000235:genetics*; D010957:Plasmids; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D014166:Transferases / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D014166:Transferases; D012696:Glycine Hydroxymethyltransferase