Sanjanwala B, Ganesan A T
Department of Genetics, Stanford Medical School, CA 94305.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1989 Jun;86(12):4421-4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.86.12.4421.
The Bacillus subtilis dnaF (polC) gene that codes for the alpha subunit of the DNA polymerase III holoenzyme has been sequenced. It consists of 4005 base pairs coding for 1335 amino acids (from the start to the stop codon), giving a molecular weight of 151,273. A mutation (azp-12) that confers resistance to the antimicrobial drug 6-(p-hydroxyphenylazo)-uracil is due to a single base change at nucleotide 3523, from TCA to GCA, resulting in a change of the 1175th amino acid, serine, to alanine. It is in the active site and located at the C-terminal part of the enzyme. The amino acid composition in an N-terminal domain has 26% homology to the epsilon subunit coded by the dnaQ gene of Escherichia coli, which is a 3'----5' proofreading exonuclease, supporting an earlier observation that this function is an integral part of the polymerase molecule in B. subtilis.
编码DNA聚合酶III全酶α亚基的枯草芽孢杆菌dnaF(polC)基因已被测序。它由4005个碱基对组成,编码1335个氨基酸(从起始密码子到终止密码子),分子量为151,273。赋予对抗菌药物6-(对羟基苯基偶氮)-尿嘧啶抗性的突变(azp-12)是由于核苷酸3523处的单个碱基变化,从TCA变为GCA,导致第1175个氨基酸丝氨酸变为丙氨酸。它位于酶的活性位点且位于C末端部分。N末端结构域中的氨基酸组成与大肠杆菌dnaQ基因编码的ε亚基具有26%的同源性,ε亚基是一种3'→5'校对核酸外切酶,这支持了早期的观察结果,即该功能是枯草芽孢杆菌中聚合酶分子的一个组成部分。