title: A novel levansucrase-levanase gene cluster in Bacillus stearothermophilus ATCC12980.
abstract: A 3.1 kb fragment of Bacillus stearothermophilus ATCC12980 DNA permitted growth of Escherichia coli on sucrose. The fragment encoded genes for a levansucrase (surB) and also a levanase (surC). SurB and SurC shared 97% and 43% amino acid identity with the corresponding SacB and SacC proteins of Bacillus subtilis, whose sacB and sacC genes are organised very differently.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology G08, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Triccas
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ferenci
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D005798:Genes, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics*; D001411:Geobacillus stearothermophilus / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases / Q000235:genetics*; D006602:Hexosyltransferases / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D005810:Multigene Family / Q000235:genetics*; D016366:Open Reading Frames / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D006602:Hexosyltransferases; C021513:levansucrase; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases; C021512:levanase