Analysis of the pediocin AcH gene cluster from plasmid pSMB74 and its expression in a pediocin-negative Pediococcus acidilactici strain.

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Bukhtiyarova, M

RESUMO

The 3,500-bp pap operon in the 8,877-bp plasmid pSMB74 contains a cluster of four genes, papABCD, of which papA encodes prepediocin (A. M. Motlagh, M. Bukhtiyarova, and B. Ray, Lett. Appl. Microbiol. 18:305-312, 1994). The cluster without the promoter was cloned in the shuttle vector pHPS9. An Escherichia coli strain and a pediocin-sensitive Pediococcus acidilactici strain transformed with the recombinant plasmid, pMBR1.0, produced pediocin AcH. Deletion analysis by introducing mutations in the four genes in pMBR1.0 revealed that only papA and papD were required for pediocin AcH production and that the gene product of papD has both translocation and processing functions. In the transformed minicells of E. coli chi 925 the proteins of the pap cluster were synthesized, indicating no polar effect due to deletion.

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