Solar Energy Research Group, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako, Saitama 351-01, Japan.
Plant Physiol. 1991 May;96(1):280-4. doi: 10.1104/pp.96.1.280.
A clone (HP-1) which transforms the high CO(2)-requiring mutant (RKb) of Synechocystis PCC6803 defective in inorganic carbon transport to the wild-type (WT) phenotype was isolated from a WT genomic library. The clone contained a 5.4 kilobase-pair DNA insert. Complementation tests with subclones derived from HP-1 allowed the mutation in RKb to be located within 141 base-pair nucleotides. Sequencing of nucleotides in this region revealed an open reading frame encoding a hydrophobic protein consists of 80 amino acids. A defined mutant (M9) constructed by inactivating this putative inorganic carbon transport gene, designated ictA, was unable to transport CO(2) and HCO(3) (-) into the intracellular inorganic carbon pool. Cloning and sequence analysis of the respective RKb gene revealed a base substitution which generates a stop codon in the middle of ictA.
从野生型(WT)基因组文库中分离到一个克隆(HP-1),该克隆能够将对二氧化碳要求较高的突变体(RKb)转化为无机碳转运缺陷的集胞藻 PCC6803 的野生型(WT)表型。该克隆含有一个 5.4 千碱基对的 DNA 插入片段。用 HP-1 衍生的亚克隆进行互补测试,允许将 RKb 中的突变定位在 141 个碱基对核苷酸内。对该区域核苷酸的测序揭示了一个开放阅读框,编码一个由 80 个氨基酸组成的疏水性蛋白。通过使这个假定的无机碳转运基因失活构建的一个明确的突变体(M9),命名为 ictA,无法将 CO(2)和 HCO(3)(-)转运到细胞内的无机碳池中。对相应的 RKb 基因的克隆和序列分析表明,碱基取代在 ictA 中间产生了一个终止密码子。