Nucleotide sequences and expression in Escherichia coli of the in-phase overlapping Pseudomonas aeruginosa plcR genes
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- 1 October 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 169 (10) , 4602-4607
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.169.10.4602-4607.1987
Abstract
The translation products of chromosomal DNAs of Pseudomonas aeruginosa encoding phospholipase C (heat-labile hemolysin) have been examined in T7 promoter plasmid vectors and expressed in Escherichia coli cells. A plasmid carrying a 4.7-kilobase (kb) DNA fragment was found to encode the 80-kilodalton (kDa) phospholipase C as well as two more proteins with an apparent molecular mass of 26 and 19 kDa. Expression directed by this DNA fragment with various deletions suggested that the coding region for the two smaller proteins was contained in a 1-kb DNA region. Moreover, the size of both proteins was reduced by the same amount by an internal BglII-BglII DNA deletion, suggesting that they were translated from overlapping genes. Similar results were obtained with another independently cloned 6.1-kb Pseudomonas DNA, which in addition coded for a 31-kDa protein of opposite orientation. The nucleotide sequence of the 1-kb region above revealed an open reading frame with a signal sequence typical of secretory proteins and a potential in-phase internal translation initiation site. Pulse-chase and localization studies in E. coli showed that the 26-kDa protein was a precursor of a secreted periplasmic 23-kDa protein (PlcR1) while the 19-kDa protein (PlcR2) was mostly cytoplasmic. These results indicate the expression of Pseudomonas in-phase overlapping genes in E. coli.This publication has 41 references indexed in Scilit:
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