title: Co-transcription of a homologue of the formamidopyrimidine-DNA glycosylase (fpg) and lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase (nlaA) in Neisseria meningitidis.
abstract: We report the identification of an open reading frame in a serogroup B isolate of Neisseria meningitidis that exhibits high nucleotide and predicted amino acid identity with the fpg gene of Escherichia coli, and its product, formamidopyrimidine-DNA glycosylase (Fapy-DNA glycosylase), a DNA repair enzyme. We further show that the meningococcal fpg is co-transcribed with nlaA, encoding a lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase, and suggest that the DNA repair enzyme may be involved in the regulation of nlaA or its gene product.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA.
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Swartley
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Stephens
mesh_terms: D000217:Acyltransferases / Q000235:genetics*; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D004260:DNA Repair; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D043382:DNA-Formamidopyrimidine Glycosylase; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009699:N-Glycosyl Hydrolases / Q000235:genetics*; D009345:Neisseria meningitidis / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics*; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D009876:Operon; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013045:Species Specificity; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D000217:Acyltransferases; C018764:2-acylglycerophosphate acyltransferase; D009699:N-Glycosyl Hydrolases; D043382:DNA-Formamidopyrimidine Glycosylase; C468610:DNA-formamidopyrimidine glycosylase, E coli