Membrane protein binding to the origin region of Bacillus subtilis.

AUTOR(ES)

Laffan, J

RESUMO

Binding of membrane proteins extracted from Bacillus subtilis to an 11.6-kilobase region containing the origin of replication was examined by Western blotting (protein blotting) procedures. Two adjacent origin probes in the double-stranded form (spanning a length of 4 kilobases) were found to bind very strongly to a 63-kilodalton (kDa) protein in that they resisted dissociation after a high-concentration salt wash. This region encompasses both a site implicated in initiation in vivo and a gene coding for a DNA gyrase subunit (gyrA). In contrast, flanking origin and nonorigin double-stranded probes were dissociated after washing with a high salt concentration. Another protein of 67 kDa bound less intensely to the putative initiation site but not to the gyrA region. All of the origin and nonorigin probes in the double- or single-stranded form were found to bind nonspecifically to a subset of 10 to 12 proteins of 50 to 60 separated by gel electrophoresis after a low-concentration salt wash. They ranged in size from 14 to over 100 kDa (including 63 kDa). However, in contrast to the double-stranded forms, most of the single-stranded probes resisted dissociation from the protein subset after a high-concentration salt wash.

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