Nucleotide sequence of the structural gene (pyrB) that encodes the catalytic polypeptide of aspartate transcarbamoylase of Escherichia coli.
AUTOR(ES)
Hoover, T A
RESUMO
The deoxyribonucleotide sequence of pyrB, the cistron encoding the catalytic subunit of aspartate transcarbamoylase (carbamoylphosphate: L-aspartate carbamoyltransferase, EC 2.1.3.2), has been determined. The pyrB gene encodes a polypeptide of 311 amino acid residues initiated by an NH2-terminal methionine that is not present in the catalytically active polypeptide. The DNA sequence analysis revealed the presence of an eight-amino-acid sequence beginning at Met-219 that was not detected in previous analyses of amino acid sequence. This octapeptide sequence provides an additional component of the disordered loop in the equatorial domain of the catalytic polypeptide. It had been found previously that the catalytic polypeptide is expressed from a bicistronic operon that also produces the regulatory polypeptide encoded by pyrI. A single transcriptional control region precedes the structural gene of the catalytic polypeptide and a simple 15-base-pair region separates its COOH terminus from the structural gene of the regulatory polypeptide. The chain-terminating codon of the catalytic polypeptide may contribute to the ribosomal binding site for the regulatory polypeptide and thus assist coordinate expression of the two cistrons.
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