title: The gvpA/C cluster of Anabaena flos-aquae has multiple copies of a gene encoding GvpA.
abstract: Southern analysis of genomic DNA from Anabaena flos-aquae revealed that the genes encoding the two authenticated protein components of cyanobacterial gas vesicles, GvpA and GvpC, were carried on the same 4.9-kb HindIII restriction fragment. By comparing the hybridization intensities observed when either gvpA- or gvpC-specific oligonucleotides are bound to this HindIII fragment, we calculated that the A. flos-aquae genome contains seven copies of gvpA and a single copy of gvpC. The nucleotide sequence of the longest cloned section of the gvpA/C cluster of A. flos-aquae DNA revealed the presence of four complete copies of gvpA and part of a fifth copy located upstream from a single copy of gvpC; no clones carrying the entire gvpA/C-bearing HindIII fragment were identified. The distribution of Sau3A restriction sites throughout the gvpA/C-bearing genomic HindIII fragment resembled that seen in the cloned portion of the gvpA/C cluster and is consistent with that expected for a cluster containing seven copies of gvpA and one copy of gvpC. The length of transcripts that hybridize to both gvpA and gvpC on Northern blots was consistent with a 7gvpA + 1gvpC transcriptional unit.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: P K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Hayes
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Powell
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D017033:Anabaena / Q000235:genetics*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018628:Gene Dosage; D005798:Genes, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family / Q000235:genetics*; D016366:Open Reading Frames / Q000235:genetics; D011506:Proteins; D012329:RNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; C076193:GvpC protein, Anabaena flos-aquae; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D011506:Proteins; D012329:RNA, Bacterial; D012333:RNA, Messenger; C038524:gas vesicle protein