Molecular cloning of Escherichia coli K-12 hexuronate system genes: exu region.
AUTOR(ES)
Ritzenthaler, P
RESUMO
Lambda transducing bacteriophages carrying the exu region (min 66) of Escherichia coli K-12 (lambda pexu) were previously isolated. A restriction map of these phages is presented. Starting from the lambda pexu phage deoxyribonucleic acid, various endonuclease-generated exu fragments were subcloned into multicopy plasmid vectors, using in vitro recombination techniques. The precise location of the exu genes, relative to the endonuclease sites, was determined. Plasmids carrying uxaC and uxaA genes overproduced the corresponding enzymes 30- to 40-fold. When these plasmids were expressed in an in vitro protein-synthesizing system, two polypeptides of 50,500 and 53,000 molecular weights appeared and were identified as the uxaC and uxaA gene products. A 2.6-kilobase-pair deoxyribonucleic acid fragment was shown to code for a functional exuR repressor which controls the expression of the exu region. Plasmids containing this fragment overproduced the regulatory protein. It was possible to localize the operator region, uxaCo, which overlapped a PstI endonuclease site, and to confirm the transcriptional direction of the uxaC-uxaA operon from uxaC to uxaA.
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