Showing papers by "Christa Schleper published in 1994"
TL;DR: All three independently isolated β-galactosidase mutants of S. solfataricus arose by transposition of ISC1217 or a related element, which revealed features typical of a transposable element.
Abstract: Three phenotypically stable mutants of the extremely thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus have been isolated by screening for β-galactosidase negative colonies on plates with X-Gal (5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-(3-d-galactopyranoside). From one of these mutants an insertion element, designated ISC1217, was isolated and characterized. Sequence analysis of ISC1217 and of the regions adjacent to the insertion site in the β-galactosidase gene revealed features typical of a transposable element: ISC1217 contained terminal inverted repeats and was flanked by a direct repeat of 6 bp. The 1147 by sequence contained an open reading frame encoding a putative protein of 354 amino acid residues and, overlapping this, two smaller open reading frames on the opposite strand. There were approximately 8 copies of the insertion element in the S. solfataricus genome. ISC1217 did not cross-hybridize with DNA of other Sulfolobus species. All three independently isolated β-galactosidase mutants of S. solfataricus arose by transposition of ISC1217 or a related element.
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TL;DR: Analysis of the transcripts from the 5S rRNA gene failed to identify any precursor extending a significant distance beyond the 5' or 3' boundary of the 5 S rRNA-coding sequence, which suggests that the primary transcript of the5S r RNA gene corresponds in length (within 1 or 2 nucleotides) to the mature 5S RRNA sequence found in 50S ribosomal subunits.
Abstract: A commonly used laboratory Sulfolobus strain has been unambiguously identified as Sulfolobus acidocaldarius DSM639. The 5S rRNA gene from this strain was cloned and sequenced. It differs at 17 of 124 positions from the identical 5S rRNA sequences from Sulfolobus solfataricus and a strain apparently misidentified as S. acidocaldarius. Analysis of the transcripts from the 5S rRNA gene failed to identify any precursor extending a significant distance beyond the 5' or 3' boundary of the 5S rRNA-coding sequence. This result suggests that the primary transcript of the 5S rRNA gene corresponds in length (within 1 or 2 nucleotides) to the mature 5S rRNA sequence found in 50S ribosomal subunits.
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