title: A protein involved in stabilization of a large non-symbiotic plasmid of Rhizobium meliloti shows homology to eukaryotic cytoskeletal proteins and DNA-binding proteins.
abstract: An open reading frame, denoted ORF2, present in the replication and stabilization region of plasmid pRmeGR4a of Rhizobium meliloti GR4, was identified by sequence analysis. This 1068-bp ORF2 potentially codes for a 356-amino-acid protein that seems to play a role in pRmeGR4a stabilization. Similarities of the ORF2-encoded protein with eukaryotic cytoskeletal proteins and DNA-binding proteins were found.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Microbiología, Estación Experimental del Zaidin, CSIC., Granada, Spain.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mercado-Blanco
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Olivares
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000235:genetics; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D005801:Genes, Homeobox; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008869:Microtubule-Associated Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D010957:Plasmids; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D016962:Sinorhizobium meliloti / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D003313:Zea mays / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; C086005:GR4 stabilization protein, Rhizobium meliloti; D008869:Microtubule-Associated Proteins