All seven comG open reading frames are required for DNA binding during transformation of competent Bacillus subtilis.

Abstract excerpt

The seven proteins encoded by the comG operon of Bacillus subtilis exhibit similarity to gene products required for the assembly of type 4 pili and for the secretion of certain proteins in gram-negative bacteria. Although polar transposon insertions in comG result in the loss of transformability and in the failure of cells grown through the competence regimen to bind DNA, it was not known whether the ComG...

Topics

• Amino Acid Sequence
• Bacillus subtilis
• Bacterial Proteins
• DNA, Bacterial
• Fimbriae, Bacterial
• Genetic Complementation Test
• Molecular Sequence Data
• Mutation
• Open Reading Frames
• Operon
• Phenotype
• Transformation, Bacterial