title: Determination of a 17,484 bp nucleotide sequence around the 39 degrees region of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome and similarity analysis of the products of putative ORFs.
abstract: We have determined a 17,484 bp nucleotide sequence around the 39 degrees region, located about 480 kb downstream from the zero position of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome physical map. Among the 17 putative ORFs identified, orf1 and orf2 seem to correspond to mtlA and mtlB, encoding mannitol-specific phosphotransferase enzyme II and mannitol-1-phosphate dehydrogenase, respectively. orf4 seems to be another signal peptidase I gene (sipS) of B. subtilis. The putative products of six ORFs were similar to known proteins in data banks, namely a hypothetical 29.7 kDa protein of Escherichia coli (Orf7), a lactam utilization protein (Orf8), the urea amidolyase of yeast (Orf12), the IcIR regulatory protein for aceAB of Salmonella typhimurium (Orf13), penicillin-binding protein 2 (Orf16) and aryl-alcohol dehydrogenase (Orf17). The amino acid sequence of Orf3 showed 34% identity with that of LeuC of B. subtilis, though they seem to be functionally different. The remaining seven ORFs did not show similarity to any known proteins.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Akagawa
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kurita
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sugawara
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kasahara
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ogasawara
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamane
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001412:Bacillus subtilis / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D002876:Chromosomes, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D010450:Endopeptidases / Q000235:genetics; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009004:Monosaccharide Transport Proteins; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D010731:Phosphoenolpyruvate Sugar Phosphotransferase System / Q000235:genetics; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D012486:Salmonella typhimurium / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D012697:Serine Endopeptidases; D013401:Sugar Alcohol Dehydrogenases / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D009004:Monosaccharide Transport Proteins; D013401:Sugar Alcohol Dehydrogenases; C021544:mannitol-1-phosphate dehydrogenase; D010731:Phosphoenolpyruvate Sugar Phosphotransferase System; C022358:mannitol PTS permease, E coli; D010450:Endopeptidases; D012697:Serine Endopeptidases; C026515:type I signal peptidase