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Physical and genetic characterization of the melibiose operon and identification of the gene products in Escherichia coli.

We have identified hybrid plasmids carrying the melibiose operon of Escherichia coli in a colony bank of Clarke and Carbon (Tsuchiya, T., Ottina, K., Moriyama, Y., Newman, M., and Wilson, T. H. (1982) J. Biol. Chem. 257, 5125-5128). Using one of the plasmids as a starting material, the DNA fragments containing the melibiose operon were recloned in a vector pBR322. Restriction maps were prepared, and several DNA segments were subcloned into pBR322. Genetic complementation tests and recombination analyses using those plasmids and melA- and melB- mutants as well as biochemical analyses of mel mutants transformed with those plasmids enabled us to determine the physical location of promoter, melA, and melB on the DNA segment. The size of the melAB region was about 3,000 base pairs. Gene products were identified using maxicells harboring plasmids carrying the melibiose operon. The apparent molecular weight of the alpha-galactosidase (coded by melA) was about 50,000 and that of the melibiose carrier (coded by melB) was about 31,000, as estimated by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The melibiose carrier was also identified as a 30,000-dalton protein in reconstituted proteoliposomes which possessed melibiose transport activity.[1]

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  1. Physical and genetic characterization of the melibiose operon and identification of the gene products in Escherichia coli. Hanatani, M., Yazyu, H., Shiota-Niiya, S., Moriyama, Y., Kanazawa, H., Futai, M., Tsuchiya, T. J. Biol. Chem. (1984) [Pubmed]
 
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