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1Division of Mycobacterial Research, National Institute for Medical Research, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill, London NW7 1AA, UK
2Departamento de Microbiologia, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas, IPN, Ap. Postal 4-870, 06400 Mexico DF, Mexico
* Author for correspondence: Robert A. Cox. Tel: +44 181 959 3666. Fax: +44 181 906 4477.
ABSTRACT
Mycobacterium smegmatis has two rRNA (rrn) operons designated rrnAf and rrnBf. Appropriate restriction fragments of genomic DNA containing sequences immediately upstream from the 16S rRNA genes were cloned. We now report the nucleotide sequence of 552 bp upstream from the 5'-end of the Box AL antitermination element of the leader region of the rrnAf operon. The 5'-end of this segment of DNA was found to comprise 113 codons of an ORF encoding a protein which is significantly similar to UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 1-carboxyvinyl-transferase (EC 2.5.1.7), which is important to cell wall synthesis. A homologous ORF is located immediately upstream from the single rrn (rrnAs) operons of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae. Primer-extension analysis of the RNA fraction of M. smegmatis revealed four products which were related to transcription start points; the rrnBf operon appears to have a single promoter whereas the rrnAf operon has three (P1, P2 and P3). Analysis of M. tuberculosis RNA revealed two products corresponding to transcripts directed by promoters homologous with P1 and P3 of the rrnA of M. smegmatis. Thus, the promoter and upstream regions of the rrnAf operon of M. smegmatis and the rrnAs operon of M. tuberculosis are homologous. The presence of P2 in M. smegmatis and its absence from M. tuberculosis is attributable to insertions/deletions of 97 bp.
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