title: Cloning and sequencing of the dnaK region of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2).
abstract: The dnaK homologue of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) strain M145 has been cloned and sequenced. Nucleotide sequence analysis of a 2.5-kb region revealed an open reading frame (ORF) encoding a predicted DnaK protein of 618 amino acids (M(r) = 66,274). The dnaK coding sequence displays extreme codon bias and shows a strong preference for CGY and GGY, for Arg and Gly codons, respectively. The predicted DnaK sequence has a high Lys:Arg ratio which is not typical of streptomycete proteins. The region immediately downstream from dnaK contains an ORF for a GrpE-like protein; the predicted start codon of grpE overlaps the last two codons of dnaK, indicating that the two genes are translationally coupled. This organisation differs from that reported for other prokaryotes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Applied Molecular Biology, U.M.I.S.T., Manchester, UK.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bucca
authors.forename: C P
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Alberti
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Seidita
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Passantino
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Puglia
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D003062:Codon; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D018840:HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D014176:Protein Biosynthesis; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D013291:Streptococcus / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D003062:Codon; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; C068113:GrpE protein, Bacteria; D018840:HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins; D006360:Heat-Shock Proteins; C063842:dnaK protein, E coli