Isolation of crtI homolog from extremely halophilic archaeon Haloarcula japonica strain TR-1.
Halobacterium sp. strain NRC-1 possesses phytoene dehydrogenase genes (crtIs). A crtI2 homolog was cloned from Haloarcula japonica strain TR-1. Nucleotide sequencing analysis of the possible crtI2 revealed that the structural gene consisted of an open reading frame of 1,521 nucleotides encoding 507 amino acids. Transcription of crtI2 in Ha. japonica was confirmed by RT-PCR.
Yatsunami
Rie
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Department of Bioengineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan.
Takaichi
Shinichi
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Nakamura
Satoshi
S
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D019843:Archaeal Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001483:Base Sequence; D019613:Haloarcula / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
D019843:Archaeal Proteins