title: Cloning and sequence analysis of the plasmid-borne genes encoding the Eco29kI restriction and modification enzymes.
abstract: The Eco29kI restriction-modification system (RMS2) has been found to be localized on the plasmid pECO29 occurring naturally in the Escherichia coli strain 29k (Pertzev, A.V., Ruban, N.M., Zakharova, M.V., Beletskaya, I.V., Petrov, S.I., Kravetz, A.N., Solonin, A.S., 1992. Eco29kI, a novel plasmid encoded restriction endonuclease from Escherichia coli. Nucleic Acids Res. 20, 1991). The genes coding for this RMS2, a SacII isoschizomer recognizing the sequence CCGCGG have been cloned in Escherichia coli K802 and sequenced. The DNA sequence predicts the restriction endonuclease (ENase) of 214 amino acids (aa) (24,556 Da) and the DNA-methyltransferase (MTase) of 382 aa (43,007 Da) where the genes are separated by 2 bp and arranged in tandem with eco29kIR preceding eco29kIM. The recombinant plasmid with eco29kIR produces a protein of expected size. MEco29kI contains all the conserved aa sequence motifs characteristic of m5C-MTases. Remarkably, its variable region exhibits a significant similarity to the part of the specific target-recognition domain (TRD) from MBssHII--multispecific m5C-MTase (Schumann, J.J., Walter, J., Willert, J., Wild, C., Koch D., Trautner, T.A., 1996. MBssHII: a multispecific cytosine-C5-DNA-methyltransferase with unusual target recognizing properties. J. Mol. Biol. 257, 949-959), which recognizes five different sites on DNA (HaeII, MluI, Cfr10I, SacII and BssHII), and the comparison of the nt sequences of its variable regions allowed us to determine the putative TRD of MEco29kI.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region, Russia.
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Zakharova
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Beletskaya
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Kravetz
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Pertzev
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Mayorov
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Shlyapnikov
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Solonin
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D017931:DNA Primers; D015252:Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010641:Phenotype; D010957:Plasmids; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000737:chemistry; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; C035337:CCGCGG-specific type II deoxyribonucleases; D015252:Deoxyribonucleases, Type II Site-Specific