UTP: alpha-D-glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase of Escherichia coli: isolation and DNA sequence of the galU gene and purification of the enzyme.
AUTOR(ES)
Weissborn, A C
RESUMO
The galU gene of Escherichia coli, thought to encode the enzyme UTP:alpha-D-glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase, had previously been mapped to the 27-min region of the chromosome (J. A. Shapiro, J. Bacteriol. 92:518-520, 1966). By complementation of the membrane-derived oligosaccharide biosynthetic defect of strains with a galU mutation, we have now identified a plasmid containing the galU gene and have determined the nucleotide sequence of this gene. The galU gene is located immediately downstream of the hns gene, and its open reading frame would be transcribed in the direction opposite that of the hns gene (i.e., clockwise on the E. coli chromosome). The nucleotide sequences of five galU mutations were also determined. The enzyme UTP:alpha-D-glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase was purified from a strain containing the galU gene on a multicopy plasmid. The amino-terminal amino acid sequence (10 residues) of the purified enzyme was identical to the predicted amino acid sequence (after the initiating methionine) of the galU-encoded open reading frame. The functional enzyme appears to be a tetramer of the galU gene product.
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