title: Cloning and sequencing of an ice nucleation active gene of Erwinia uredovora.
abstract: An ice nucleation activity gene, named inaU, of the bacterium Erwinia uredovora KUIN-3 has been sequenced. This gene encodes a protein of 1034 amino acid residues, and its expression product, inaU protein, has an 832-amino acid residue segment consisting of 52 repeats of closely related 16-amino acid motifs (R-domain), flanked by N- and C-terminal sequences (N- and C-domains, respectively). The primary structure of the inaU protein is similar to those of the inaA, inaW, and inaZ gene products of Erwinia ananas, Pseudomonas fluorescens, and Pseudomonas syringae, respectively, but is smaller than any of these products in terms of the size of the R-domain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural Chemistry, University of Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Michigami
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Watabe
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Obata
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Arai
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004885:Erwinia / Q000235:genetics*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011549:Pseudomonas / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; C063113:ice nucleation protein; C087655:inaU protein, Pantoea ananas