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Cloning and nucleotide sequence of the hemA gene of Agrobacterium radiobacter

✍ Scribed by Drolet, M. ;Sasarman, A.

Publisher: Springer
Year: 1991
Tongue: English
Weight: 996 KB
Volume: 226-226
Category: Article
ISSN: 0026-8925
DOI: 10.1007/bf00273610

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✦ Synopsis

The hemA gene of Agrobacterium radiobacter ATCC4718 was identified by hybridization with a hemA probe from Rhizobium meliloti and cloned by complementation of a hemA mutant of Escherichia coli K12. E. coli hemA transformants carrying the hemA gene of Agrobacterium showed delta-aminolevulinic acid synthetase (delta-ALAS) activity in vitro. The hemA gene was carried on a 4.4 kb EcoRI fragment which could be reduced to a 2.6 kb EcoRI-SstI fragment without affecting its complementing or delta-ALAS activity. The sequence of the hemA gene showed an open reading frame of 1215 nucleotides, which could code for a protein of 44,361 Da. This is very close to the molecular weight of the HemA protein obtained using an in vitro coupled transcription-translation system (45,000 Da). Comparison of amino acid sequences of the delta-ALAS of A. radiobacter and Bradyrhizobium japonicum showed strong homology between the two enzymes; less, but still significant, homology was observed when A. radiobacter and human delta-ALAS were compared. Primer extension experiments enabled us to identify two promoters for the hemA gene of A. radiobacter. One of these promoters shows some similarity to the first promoter of the hemA gene of R. meliloti.

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