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Abstract
An Escherichia coli strain with thermosensitive expression of the gene encoding peptide deformylase (fms) has been constructed. At nonpermissive temperatures, this strain fails to grow. The essential character of the fms gene was further used to clone by heterologous complementation the locus corresponding to Thermus thermophilus peptide deformylase. The cloned fragment also carries the methionyl-tRNA(fMet) formyltransferase gene (fmt). It is located immediately downstream from the fms gene, as in E. coli. Further sequence analysis of the region surrounding the E. coli fms-fmt locus indicates that the genes bordering the fms-fmt region are not conserved in T. thermophilus.Entities:
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Year: 1994 PMID: 7961514 PMCID: PMC197131 DOI: 10.1128/jb.176.23.7387-7390.1994
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bacteriol ISSN: 0021-9193 Impact factor: 3.490