[A new thermophilic strain of Bacillus coagulans--a producer of BcoK1 site-specific endonuclease].

The strain, producing new site-specific endonuclease BcoKI has been found at the screening of the thermophilic bacteria isolated from tobacco. A phenotype characteristic of the strain is given. It has been identified as a new strain Bacillus coagulans. BcoKI, a class-IIS restriction endonuclease has been obtained by three consecutive chromatographies on blue agarose hydroxyapatite and heparin-Sepharose. BcoKI, an isoschizomer of Ksp6321, recognizes the six base non-palindromic sequence 5'CTCTTC3' and cleaves one nucleotide 3' of the 3' cytosine on this strand and four nucleotide 5' of the 5' guanine on the opposite strand to generate a three base 5' overhang.