title: Purification of cold-shock-like proteins from Stigmatella aurantiaca - molecular cloning and characterization of the cspA gene.
abstract: Prominent low-molecular-weight proteins were isolated from vegetative cells of the myxobacterium Stigmatella aurantiaca and were found to be members of the cold-shock protein family. A first gene of this family (cspA) was cloned and sequenced. It encodes a protein of 68 amino acid residues that displays up to 71% sequence identity with other bacterial cold-shock(-like) proteins. A cysteine residue within the RNP-2 motif is a peculiarity of Stigmatella CspA. A cspA::(Deltatrp-lacZ) fusion gene construct was introduced into Stigmatella by electroporation, a method that has not been used previously for this strain. Analysis of the resultant transformants revealed that cspA transcription occurs at high levels during vegetative growth at 20 and 32 degrees C, and during fruiting body formation.
authors.affiliation: Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie der Universität Heidelberg (ZMBH), Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Stamm
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Leclerque
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Plaga
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002455:Cell Division; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018274:Electroporation; D005798:Genes, Bacterial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009154:Mutation; D009231:Myxococcales / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000737:chemistry; D010957:Plasmids; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D010446:Peptide Fragments; C062260:cold shock protein CS7.4, Bacteria