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Nucleotide sequence of the Bacillus stearothermophilus alpha-amylase gene.

Journal of bacteriology ·Vol. 163 ·No. 1 ·1985-07-00 ·Pages 401-6

Nakajima R, Imanaka T, Aiba S

Abstract

The nucleotide sequence of the Bacillus stearothermophilus alpha-amylase gene and its flanking regions was determined. An open reading frame was found, comprising a total of 1,647 base pairs (549 amino acids) and starting from a GUG codon as methionine. It was shown by NH2-terminal amino acid sequence analysis that the extracellular amylase consisted of 515 amino acid residues, which corresponded to a molecular weight of 58,779. Thus the NH2-terminal portion of the gene encodes 34 amino acid residues as a signal peptide. The amino acid sequence deduced from the alpha-amylase gene was fairly homologous (61%) with that of another thermostable amylase from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens.

MeSH Terms
Amino Acid Sequence Bacillus/genetics Bacillus subtilis/genetics Base Sequence Cloning, Molecular Genes, Bacterial Geobacillus stearothermophilus/genetics Molecular Weight Species Specificity alpha-Amylases/genetics
Chemicals
alpha-Amylases
Authors & Affiliations
3 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Nakajima R
Imanaka T
Aiba S
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Article Info
Journal
Journal of bacteriology
Abbr.
J Bacteriol
ISSN
0021-9193
Published
1985-07-00
Pages
401-6
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
2985120R
PMCID
PMC219130
Subset
IM
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