GENETIC AND PHYSICAL MAPPING OF AN HYDROGENASE GENE-CLUSTER FROM RHODOBACTER-CAPSULATUS

被引:40
作者
COLBEAU, A [1 ]
MAGNIN, JP [1 ]
CAUVIN, B [1 ]
CHAMPION, T [1 ]
VIGNAIS, PM [1 ]
机构
[1] CEN,DEPT RECH FONDAMENTALE,BIOCHIM MICROBIENNE LAB,CNRS,UA 1130,85X,F-38041 GRENOBLE,FRANCE
来源
MOLECULAR & GENERAL GENETICS | 1990年 / 220卷 / 03期
关键词
(NiFe)hydrogenase; Chromosomal mapping; Hydrogenase (hup) genes; IS; 21; Rhodobacter capsulatus hupS; hupL;
D O I
10.1007/BF00391744
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
An hydrogenase-deficient (Hup-) mutant of Rhodobacter capsulatus was obtained by adventitious insertion of IS 21 DNA into an hydrogenase structural gene (hup) of the wild-type strain 1310. The resulting Hup- mutant, strain JP91, selected by its inability to grow autotrophically (Aut- phenotype) together with other Hup- mutant strains obtained by classical ethyl methane sulphonate mutagenesis were used in R plasmid-mediated conjugation experiments to map the hup/aut loci on the chromosome of R. capsulatus. The hup genes tested in this study were found to cluster on the chromosome in the proximity of the his-1 marker. A cluster of hup genes comprising the structural genes was isolated from a gene bank constructed in the cosmid vector pHC79 with 40 kb insert DNA. The clustered hup genes, characterized by hybridization studies and complementation analyses of the R. capsulatus Hup- mutants, span 15-20 kb of DNA. © 1990 Springer-Verlag.
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页码:393 / 399
页数:7
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