Cloning and nucleotide sequence of the Bartonella bacilliformis genes : alaS and leuS, which encode aminoacyl tRNA synthetases; pyrF, which encodes orotidine 5' monophosphate decarboxylase; and txpA, an ABC transporter-like protein similar to the Agrobacterium tumefaciens chvA gene /

and leus and the putative transport gene txpa, have been

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Main Author: Upeslacis, Erik, 1970-
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1996.
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Summary:and leus and the putative transport gene txpa, have been
are on the same DNA fragment, have not been localized.
associated gene adjacent to txpa, and the close identity
Biosynthetic genes, putatively identified as pyrf, alas
cloned and sequenced from the gram negative, hemotrophic,
coded by these genes.
exporter. Further study will provide greater insight
flagellated bacterium Barionella bacilliformis. The
functions of the genes were predicted by comparison of
genes of similar function. The lack of a toxin-
indicate that none are located in clusters with related
into the mechanisms of each of the biochemical functions
known functions found in the GCG sequence database. A
M. NEnnick (27). A physical NotIlSfil map demonstrates
maps to a 354-kb NotIlNoll fragment. alas and bgga, which
plant bacterium A. tumefaciens as previously reported by
protein sequence alignment of txpa provides data which
Sequence analyses of DNA surrounding each of these genes
suggests that B. bacilliformis is closely related to the
that pyrf maps to a 50-kb NotIlNotl fragment and leus
their derived protein sequences to those of proteins with
with chva, indicate that txpa probably is a glucan
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Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references: pages 55-58.