Hilden I, Krath B N, Hove-Jensen B
Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
J Bacteriol. 1995 Dec;177(24):7280-4. doi: 10.1128/jb.177.24.7280-7284.1995.
The gcaD, prs, and ctc genes were shown to be organized as a tricistronic operon. The transcription of the prs gene, measured as phosphoribosyl diphosphate synthetase activity, and of the ctc gene, measured as beta-galactosidase activity specified by a ctc-lacZ protein fusion, were dependent on the promoter in front of the gcaD gene. Analysis of cDNA molecules prepared with gcaD-prs-ctc-specified mRNA as the template revealed an RNA transcript that encompassed all three cistrons.
gcaD、prs和ctc基因被证明是以一个三顺反子操纵子的形式组织起来的。prs基因的转录(以磷酸核糖焦磷酸合成酶活性来衡量)以及ctc基因的转录(以ctc-lacZ蛋白融合体所指定的β-半乳糖苷酶活性来衡量)都依赖于gcaD基因前面的启动子。以gcaD-prs-ctc所指定的mRNA为模板制备的cDNA分子分析显示出一个包含所有三个顺反子的RNA转录本。