Article
virG, an Agrobacterium tumefaciens transcriptional activator, initiates translation at a UUG codon and is a sequence-specific DNA-binding protein.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Mar 1990
Pazour G J, Das A
Abstract excerpt
The Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ti plasmid virG locus, in conjunction with virA and acetosyringone, activates transcription of the virulence (vir) genes. Insertional and deoxyoligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis studies showed that both octopine and nopaline Ti plasmid virG genes initiate translation at a UUG codon. VirG protein initiated at this UUG codon was found to be 241 amino acid residues in length and had...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- Base Sequence
- Codon
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Genes, Bacterial
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Oligonucleotide Probes
- Plasmids
- Protein Biosynthesis
- RNA, Messenger