title: Identification and characterization of the omaA gene encoding the major outer membrane protein of Azospirillum brasilense.
abstract: The major outer membrane protein (MOMP) of Azospirillum brasilense was purified and degenerate oligonucleotides were constructed on the basis of partial internal amino acid sequences. PCR products were obtained using total DNA of A. brasilense as template. One of these, a 766-bp fragment, was DIG-labelled and used in Southern hybridization against A. brasilense DNA and a genomic library of A. brasilense in Escherichia coli. A clone containing a 20-kb EcoRI insert in pLAFR3 was identified by PCR screening. From this insert, an EcoRI-SalI fragment of approximately 3.5-kb was subcloned in pUC19. The gene encoding the A. brasilense MOMP was sequenced and analyzed. The deduced amino acid sequence contains a putative signal peptide of 23 residues, followed by 367 amino acids of the mature protein with a molecular mass of 38,753 Da. The deduced amino acid sequence shows similarity to certain bacterial porins.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, and The Otto Warburg Center for Agricultural Biotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Burdman
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: De Mot
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Vanderleyden
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Okon
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jurkevitch
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D015806:Azospirillum brasilense / Q000235:genetics*; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism; D017931:DNA Primers; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D001425:Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins; D017931:DNA Primers; D008565:Membrane Proteins