Organization of unc gene cluster of Escherichia coli coding for proton-translocating ATPase of oxidative phosphorylation.
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Kanazawa, H
RESUMO
The proton-translocating ATPase (F1-F0) of oxidative phosphorylation (ATP phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.3) is coded for by a set of structural genes comprising the unc operon in Escherichia coli. We have analyzed several new transducing phages and plasmids carrying various lengths of the DNA segments of the unc operon by complementation assay using 14 new unc- mutants and representatives of previously described strains which were made available to us. Transducing phages carrying parts of the unc gene cluster were isolated: lambda uncA-9 and lambda glmS phages converted only some of the unc- mutants to the Unc+, as determined by complementation assays. A new hybrid plasmid (pMCR533) carrying part of the unc operon was constructed by inserting the HindIII fragment of lambda asn-5 DNA (a phage carrying the entire unc operon) into the unique HindIII site of pBR322. This plasmid transformed eight unc- strains to Unc+, including uncB402 and uncA401, but did not complement uncD11 or four other strains. Two minichromosomes which carry the E. coli replication origin were also tested: plasmid pNH05 transformed the uncB402 but not the uncA401 strain to Unc+, whereas plasmid pMCF1 transformed none of the mutants tested. Analysis of the DNAs from these transducing phages and plasmids with restriction endonucleases suggested that all of the structural genes for the F1-F0 complex are localized within a DNA segment of approximately 4.5 megadaltons containing two EcoRI sites. The approximate locations of the unc- mutations were mapped on this DNA segment.
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